William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Quotes 481 till 500 of 536.
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Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect the thoughts of others!
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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; filths savour but themselves.
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Words pay no debts.
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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much;
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You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
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'T is not enough to help the feeble up; but to support him after.
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
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'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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'Twas never merry world since lowly feigning was Galled compliment.
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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