Maar om je de waarheid te zeggen,
rede en liefde gaan nog maar zelden samen tegenwoordig.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE