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William Shakespeare
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“I 'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nature 's above art in that respect.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ay, every inch a king.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low,--an excellent thing in woman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The bookish theoric.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whip me such honest knaves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels' history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak,--such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; She swore, in faith, 't was strange, 't was passing strange. 'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I do perceive here a divided duty.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I saw Othello's visage in his mind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Put money in thy purse.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Framed to make women false.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For I am nothing, if not critical.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- _Des._ To do what? _Iago._ To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. _Des._ O most lame and impotent conclusion!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Egregiously an ass.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Potations pottle-deep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear,-- With that he called the tailor lown.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle From her propriety.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source