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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”
“Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.”
“I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.”
“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”
“I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.”
“Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!”
“For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”
“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”
“I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear”
“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”
“Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”
“Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.”
“At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”
“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.”
“I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.”
“I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.”
“Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -”
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.”
“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
“I cannot speak your england.”
“Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.”
“I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.”
“Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.”