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William Shakespeare
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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sits the wind in that corner?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Are you good men and true?”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The most senseless and fit man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You shall comprehend all vagrom men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_2 Watch._ How if a' will not stand? _Dogb._ Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Is most tolerable, and not to be endured.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I know that Deformed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Comparisons are odorous.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The eftest way.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Flat burglary as ever was committed.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Condemned into everlasting redemption.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, that he were here to write me down an ass!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Patch grief with proverbs.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Charm ache with air, and agony with words.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some of us will smart for it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I was not born under a rhyming planet.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Done to death by slanderous tongues.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A high hope for a low heaven.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That unlettered small-knowing soul.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source