Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Alive from: 1564-1616
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes 46 till 60 of 536.
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Good counselors lack no clients.
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Good name in men and women, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their soul.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
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If it be a sin to covet honor I am the most offending soul alive.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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