William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Quotes 361 till 380 of 536.
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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices;
Make instruments to plague us.King Lear 5, 3― William Shakespeare -
The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
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The hind that would be mated with the lion must die of love.
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The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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The labour we delight in physics pain
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The man that hath no music in himself; nor is not move with concord of sweet sounds; is fit for treasons stratagems, and spoils.
The merchant of Venice (1597)― William Shakespeare -
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doch glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
A midsummer night's dream (1595)― William Shakespeare -
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
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The proverb is something musty.
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The quality of mercy is not strained.
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The rest is silence.
Hamlet (1600)― William Shakespeare -
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Othello 1, 3― William Shakespeare -
The soul of this man is his clothes.
All's well that ends well― William Shakespeare -
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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