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Quotes by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Thrice is he armd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lockd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o the milk of human kindness.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

But for my own part it was Greek to me.

The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.

The first thing we do lets kill all the lawyers.

Whats mine is yours and what is yours is mine.

Such as we are made of such we be.

One man in his time plays many parts.

If music be the food of love play on Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came oer my ear like the sweet sound.

Out out brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow.

A light heart lives long.

Love sought is good but given unsought is better.

I shall not look upon his like again.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.

Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.

Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.