William Shakespeare Quotes

The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
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The valiant never taste of death but once.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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The wheel is come full circle.
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The will of man is by his reason swayed.
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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They say miracles are past.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question.
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To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
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To their right praise and true perfection!
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
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What is past is prologue.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
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Why this is very midsummer madness.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
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Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'.
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