“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.”
“Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.”
“The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.”
“The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.”
“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.”
“The weakest goes to the wall.”
“I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.”
“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
“Take it in what sense thou wilt.”
“And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.”
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
“This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.”
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.”
“Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.”
“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
