"It was Greek to me."

Shakespeare, William on language   

"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."

Shakespeare, William on laughter   

"The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]"

Shakespeare, William on law and lawyers
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"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"Simply the thing I am shall make me live."

Shakespeare, William on life   

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

Shakespeare, William on argument
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"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."

Shakespeare, William on argument   

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"I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct."

Shakespeare, William on argument   

"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."

Shakespeare, William on army and navy
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"Much Ado About Nothing,"

Shakespeare, William on importance   

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Shakespeare, William on hope
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"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself."

Shakespeare, William on honesty
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

Shakespeare, William on futility
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Shakespeare, William on the future
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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

Shakespeare, William on gifts   

"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging   

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

Shakespeare, William on agents
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"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

Shakespeare, William on ambition
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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

Shakespeare, William on ambition   

"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."

Shakespeare, William on anecdotes
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on gratitude
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"Patch grief with proverbs."

Shakespeare, William on grief
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"He receives comfort like cold porridge."

Shakespeare, William on gratitude   

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on happiness   

"There is a history in all men's lives."

Shakespeare, William on history and historians
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"People usually are the happiest at home."

Shakespeare, William on home
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"Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on listening
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