William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Quotes 81 till 100 of 536.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Source: Hamlet― William Shakespeare -
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)― William Shakespeare -
Be patient, For the world is broad and wide.
Source: Romeo and Juliet 3, 3― William Shakespeare -
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.― William Shakespeare -
Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
Source: Henry VI 1, 4― William Shakespeare -
Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)― William Shakespeare -
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Source: Hamlet (1600)― William Shakespeare -
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
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Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.Source: Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1.― William Shakespeare -
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
Source: King Lear 1,1― William Shakespeare -
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Confess yourself to heaven; repent what's past; avoid what is to come.
Source: Hamlet― William Shakespeare -
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Source: Julius Caesar II, 2, 2― William Shakespeare
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