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William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,O cross! too high to be enthrall’d ...
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what ...
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:An...
“For she had eyes and chose me.”
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
“O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in'...
“He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:T...
“One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”
“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breathTo say to me that thou art out of breath?”
“Love all, trust a few,Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemyRather in power than use; and keep thy friendUnder thy o...
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd...
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo ...
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II”
“The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes; and wi...
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”
“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do the...
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of a...
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time...
“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,T...
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed ...
“If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did a...
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decke...
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious wo...
“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)”
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, an...
“True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is as thin of su...
“Educated men are so impressive!”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.”
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
“thus with a kiss I die”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
“My soul is in the sky.”
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
“Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.”
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand t...
“Thought is free.”
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
