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William Shakespeare
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“Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“An angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And put My clouted brogues from off my feet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, never say hereafter But I am truest speaker. You call'd me brother When I was but your sister.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like an arrow shot From a well-experienc'd archer hits the mark His eye doth level at.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_3 Fish._ Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. _1 Fish._ Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And stretched metre of an antique song.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But thy eternal summer shall not fade.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Full many a glorious morning have I seen.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My grief lies onward and my joy behind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like stones of worth, they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And art made tongue-tied by authority.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,-- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen-- Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Do not drop in for an after-loss. Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Still constant is a wondrous excellence.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That full star that ushers in the even.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and questions deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft of will.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cursed be he that moves my bones.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source