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William Shakespeare
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“No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The mirror of all courtesy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This bold bad man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And then to breakfast with What appetite you have.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Press not a falling man too far!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye: I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have: And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A load would sink a navy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And sleep in dull cold marble.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A royal train, believe me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He was a man Of an unbounded stomach.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is a cruelty To load a falling man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You were ever good at sudden commendations.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I come not To hear such flattery now, and in my presence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They are too thin and bare to hide offences.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have had my labour for my travail.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source