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William Shakespeare
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“But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Within the book and volume of my brain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Ham._ There 's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he 's an arrant knave. _Hor._ There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Art thou there, truepenny? Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is the very ecstasy of love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“More matter, with less art.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity; And pity 't is 't is true.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Still harping on my daughter.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Pol._ What do you read, my lord? _Ham._ Words, words, words.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They have a plentiful lack of wit.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“On fortune's cap we are not the very button.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A dream itself is but a shadow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Come, give us a taste of your quality.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 't was caviare to the general.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Abuses me to damn me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The play 's the thing Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there 's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there 's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am myself indifferent honest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source