William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Lived from: 1564 - 1616
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Quotes 161 till 180 of 536.
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
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I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
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I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.
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I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Much Ado About Nothing 2, 1― William Shakespeare -
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
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I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
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I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author of himself and knew no other kin.
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If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
Macbeth I, 7― William Shakespeare
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