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William Shakespeare
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“O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The very age and body of the time his form and pressure.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not to speak it profanely.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_First Play._ We have reformed that indifferently with us, sir. _Ham._ O, reform it altogether.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.--Something too much of this.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Here 's metal more attractive.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I 'll have a suit of sables.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is miching mallecho; it means mischief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Ham._ Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? _Oph._ 'T is brief, my lord. _Ham._ As woman's love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is as easy as lying.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It will discourse most eloquent music.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Pluck out the heart of my mystery.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_Ham._ Do you see yonder cloud that 's almost in shape of a camel? _Pol._ By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed. _Ham._ Methinks it is like a weasel. _Pol._ It is backed like a weasel. _Ham._ Or like a whale? _Pol._ Very like a whale.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They fool me to the top of my bent.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By and by is easily said.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dead, for a ducat, dead!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“False as dicers' oaths.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A rhapsody of words.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What act That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source