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William Shakespeare
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“One entire and perfect chrysolite.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Curse his better angel from his side, And fall to reprobation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every puny whipster.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have done the state some service, and they know 't. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“On the sudden A Roman thought hath struck him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This grief is crowned with consolation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give me to drink mandragora.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Where 's my serpent of old Nile?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A morsel for a monarch.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Small to greater matters must give way.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have not kept my square; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T was merry when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who does i' the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He wears the rose Of youth upon him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The shirt of Nessus is upon me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am dying, Egypt, dying.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fallen.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For his bounty, There was no winter in 't; an autumn 't was That grew the more by reaping.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If there be, or ever were, one such, It 's past the size of dreaming.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hath his bellyful of fighting.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As chaste as unsunn'd snow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some griefs are medicinable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So slippery that The fear 's as bad as falling.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The game is up.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No, 't is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some jay of Italy, Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him: Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have not slept one wink.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source