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William Shakespeare
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“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The cunning livery of hell.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every true man's apparel fits your thief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We would, and we would not.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The pleasing punishment that women bear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every why hath a wherefore.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He hath indeed better bettered expectation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A very valiant trencher-man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's a skirmish of wit between them.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gentleman is not in your books.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Benedick the married man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He is of a very melancholy disposition.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Speak low if you speak love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source