William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Quotes 261 till 280 of 536.
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Now cracks a noble heart.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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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?
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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