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Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.


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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Not...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Done to death by slanderous tongues. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak low if you speak love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. -Much Ad...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You shall comprehend all vagrom men. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The most senseless and fit man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We will answer all things faithfully. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEA...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. -King Henry V. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My cake is dough. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
BUZZ ALDRIN A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Muc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -M...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the pu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For bei...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and ste...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's much ado about nothing in some respects,
RICK APPLEGATE The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. -The Tempest. Act v. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc....
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And t...
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Think but this, and all is mended,
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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.
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The appetite ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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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...
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