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William Shakespeare
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“The head is not more native to the heart.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That it should come to this!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Frailty, thy name is woman!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A little month.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like Niobe, all tears.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A beast, that wants discourse of reason.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is not nor it cannot come to good.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Season your admiration for a while.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the dead vast and middle of the night.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Arm'd at point exactly, cap-a-pe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Ham._ His beard was grizzled,--no? _Hor._ It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let it be tenable in your silence still.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gave it an understanding, but no tongue.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Springes to catch woodcocks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Ham._ The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. _Hor._ It is a nipping and an eager air.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I 'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I 'll make a ghost of him that lets me!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O my prophetic soul! My uncle!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source