My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
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Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
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Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
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Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might. 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