William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Quotes 441 till 460 of 536.
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
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Trifles, light as air; are to the jealous confirmations strong; as proofs of the holy writ.
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True nobility is exempt from fear
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Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.
Henry VI (1590)― William Shakespeare -
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Measure for measure (1604)― William Shakespeare -
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / and vice sometimes by action dignified.
Romeo and Juliet (1595)― William Shakespeare -
We are such stuff
As dreams are made off, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.― William Shakespeare -
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep.
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
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We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
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We have seen better days.
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We know what we are now, but not what we may become.
Hamlet 4, 5― William Shakespeare -
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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We must speak by the card, or equivocations will undo us.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
― William Shakespeare
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