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William Shakespeare
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“Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,-- A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it 's humble.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A king of shreds and patches.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How is 't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For 't is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Come, my coach! Good night, sweet ladies; good night.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's rosemary, that 's for remembrance; . . . and there is pansies, that 's for thoughts.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You must wear your rue with a difference. There 's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His beard was as white as snow, All flaxen was his poll.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A very riband in the cap of youth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That we would do, We should do when we would.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_1 Clo._ Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. _2 Clo._ But is this law? _1 Clo._ Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cudgel thy brains no more about it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Has this fellow no feeling of his business?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A politician, . . . one that would circumvent God.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till we find it stopping a bung-hole?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A ministering angel shall my sister be.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source