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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
“Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.”
“Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.”
“Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.”
“Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”
“I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.”
“Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.”
“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.”
“Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.”
“Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
“How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”
“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”
“A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.”
“He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”
“That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.”
“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”
“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”
“That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.”
“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.”
“For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.”
“He was ever precise in promise-keeping.”