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William Shakespeare
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“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Enough, with over-measure.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Serv._ Where dwellest thou? _Cor._ Under the canopy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If you have writ your annals true, 't is there That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The weakest goes to the wall.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An hour before the worshipp'd sun Peered forth the golden window of the east.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Saint-seducing gold.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For you and I are past our dancing days.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shall have the chinks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Rom._ Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-- _Jul._ O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The god of my idolatry.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say, "It lightens.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Stabbed with a white wench's black eye.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The courageous captain of complements.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One, two, and the third in your bosom.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source