O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
William Shakespeare
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O how full of briars is this working-day world. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how full of briers is this working-day world! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O monstrous world! Take note, take note, o world,To be direct and honest is not safe! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, / Missing so much and so much? / O fat white woman w... FRANCES CORNFORD O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. ABU BAKR There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and h... GEORGE MULLER O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! JOSEPH BANKS He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should f... NINA LACOUR I trust to take of truest Thisby's sight. But stay;—O spite! �... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Wh... JACK MA The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'... WILLIAM BLAKE We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of ... نزار قباني O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t... CHARLES DICKENS You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason... SAINT BERNARD To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the... BEN JONSON O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole w... PHILIP II Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the min... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart? How did touch my soul? How did you win my... DEBASISH MRIDHA But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people.... WILLIAM LANDAY I often looked upon Walt Whitman's poem "O Me O Life" as my inspiration for life. But now I realize ... JOVIAN KRYNICKI O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff ... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as... HENRY FIELDING O world, that's you! You are but a widened place in the river Where Life looks down and we... EDGAR LEE MASTERS O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-B... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or,... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY To be fair, we're on the edge of the world, and we haven't done a good job explaining how we work, s... ART WONG You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful w... MARIE CORELLI O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, w... JOHN DONNE O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. SOURCE UNKNOWN The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to... ESTHER DUFLO Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare. SHAKESPEARE Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her painting... JERRY SALTZ For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI what ho, apothecary! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. WALT WHITMAN Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I never heard a passion so confused,
So strange, outrageous, and so variable
As the dog Jew di... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our responsibility in our new process is to plan how and where around the world we should be taking ... BILL NEWLANDS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our... MIZUKI NOMURA You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, th... JOHN GREEN O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body... W.B. YEATS I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect... KAREN ARMSTRONG O how far remov'd,
Predestination! is thy foot from such
As see not the First Cause entire: ... DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Mer... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Why should anyone be afraid? O Nanak, those who recognize the True Lord are blended with the True On... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB TEDDY DAY POEM: A bear hug for you, and I would make you forget your sorrows! I’ll ... VIKRMN He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I ... BIBLE Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o... BARBARA JORDAN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness a... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath ... BIBLE Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how... BIBLE I will drive the world crazy with love poems for you. So they can know how magnificent you... KAMAND KOJOURI O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! DANTE ALIGHIERI O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!. DANTE (ALIGHIERI) So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating t... BRIAN BEHLENDORF O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. SOURCE UNKNOWN O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. ANONYMOUS And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suf... BIBLE O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said,] America is fitted by tradition for direct... GIUSEPPE MAZZINI When you love someone, your world becomes wonderful. Image if you loved everyone how wonderful your ... JIM GENOVESE I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see... LISA KLEYPAS Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. RHONDA BYRNE O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
[Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] THOMAS A KEMPIS Our Lord and Master is all-pervading everywhere. What should I say, and what should I hear? O my Lor... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is. PRADEEPA PANDIYAN There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so m... MICHAEL FASSBENDER So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicati... BRIAN BEHLENDORF O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it PHILLIP BROOKS Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we m... ALBRECHT DURER O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars F... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!... PHILLIPS BROOKS It seems to be changing into an "every man for himself" world. The world is so competitive that thin... DOUG DAVIDSON O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil o... JOHN MILTON Feast of Michael & All Angels We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and re... MEISTER ECKHART My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world... ADRIAN TOMINE And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo? EDWARD LEAR O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? W.B. YEATS
More William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Whi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we hap... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jesters do oft prove prophets WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like
an old tale that the verity of it ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
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
And call in question our necessities. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
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!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
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 We were not born to sue, but to command. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE