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William Shakespeare
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“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I had most need of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Infirm of purpose!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The labour we delight in physics pain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dire combustion and confused events New hatch'd to the woful time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's daggers in men's smiles.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Mur._ We are men, my liege. _Mac._ Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Things without all remedy Should be without regard; what 's done is done.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well: Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In them Nature's copy 's not eterne.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A deed of dreadful note.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The air-drawn dagger.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The time has been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I drink to the general joy o' the whole table.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A thing of custom,--'t is no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,-- Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admir'd disorder.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Macb._ What is the night? _L. Macb._ Almost at odds with morning, which is which.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source