Quotes by Shakespeare, William

"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

Shakespeare, William on advice
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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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?"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all."

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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."

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"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale."

Shakespeare, William on decay
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?"

Shakespeare, William on delinquency
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on destiny
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"The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence."

Shakespeare, William on diligence
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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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."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]"

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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