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William Shakespeare
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“The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The rational hind Costard.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By my penny of observation.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The boy hath sold him a bargain,--a goose.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A very beadle to a humorous sigh.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A buck of the first head.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You two are book-men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dictynna, goodman Dull.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It adds a precious seeing to the eye.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let me take you a button-hole lower.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Masters, spread yourselves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is Ercles' vein.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am slow of study.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That would hang us, every mother's son.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The human mortals.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I 'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My heart Is true as steel.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source