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William Shakespeare
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“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man I am, cross'd with adversity.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Come not within the measure of my wrath.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mine host of the Garter.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou art the Mars of malcontents.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We burn daylight.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's the humour of it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is the short and the long of it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unless experience be a jewel.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like a fair house, built on another man's ground.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We have some salt of our youth in us.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Happy man be his dole!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As good luck would have it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man of my kidney.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Think of that, Master Brook.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In his old lunes again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He was ever precise in promise-keeping.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He arrests him on it; And follows close the rigour of the statute, To make him an example.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source