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Quotes from William Shakespeare

I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
~ William Shakespeare
For us and for our tragedy, Here stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently. HAMLET: Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?
~ William Shakespeare
He says he loves my daughter. I think so too, for never gazed the moon upon the water as he'll stand and read as 'twere my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, I think there is not half a kiss to choose who loves another best.
~ William Shakespeare
Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money
~ William Shakespeare
I am in So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.
~ William Shakespeare
Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.
~ William Shakespeare
O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd, If not most mortal to him.
~ William Shakespeare
I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.
~ William Shakespeare
Come, we burn daylight, ho!
~ William Shakespeare
Things growing are not ripe until their season:
~ William Shakespeare
The Friends Thou Hast And Their Adoption Tried Grapple Them To Thy Soul With Hooks Of Steel
~ William Shakespeare
Soy muy soberbio, ambicioso, vengativo, con más pecados sobre mi cabeza que pensamientos para concebirlos, fantasía para darles forma o tiempo para llevarlos a ejecución.
~ William Shakespeare
for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
~ William Shakespeare
Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!
~ William Shakespeare
Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.
~ William Shakespeare
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave
~ William Shakespeare
For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Ai! Em teus olhos há maior perigo do que em vinte punhais dos teus parentes. Olha-me com doçura, e é quanto basta para me deixar invulnerável ao ódio deles.
~ William Shakespeare
Trip away; Make no stay
~ William Shakespeare
Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: Me conquisté yo misma.
~ William Shakespeare
I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.
~ William Shakespeare
All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven. 'Tis gone. Arise black vengeance, from the hollow hell! Yield up, oh love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, for 'tis of aspics' tongues.
~ William Shakespeare
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
~ William Shakespeare