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William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

The "Chandos" portrait, possibly by John Taylor, circa 1610

William Shakespeare quotes:

Quotes found : 162 — (15 per page, this is page 7 of 11) Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next

• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• Sweet are the uses of adversity,
  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. permalink
      William Shakespeare - As You Like It
  
  
• Sweet are the uses of adversity,
  Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• Sweet are the uses of adversity,
  Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
  And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
  Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
  Sermons in stones, and good in everything. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• Talkers are no good doers. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• Tempt not a desperate man. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• 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. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The art of our necessities is strange,
  And can make vile things precious. permalink
      William Shakespeare - King Lear Act III, scene ii
  
  
• The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne, burnd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed, that the winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggard all description. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The course of true love never did run smooth. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
  And is not careful what they mean thereby. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The earth has music for those who listen. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
  But in ourselves, that we are underlings. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The King's name is a tower of strength. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
  Are of imagination all compact:
  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
  That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
  Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
  The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
  Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
  And as imagination bodies forth
  The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
  Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
  A local habitation and a name. permalink
      William Shakespeare
  
  

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