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I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. -Antony and Cleopatra
Why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on. -Hamlet
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly follow'd. -Othello
Season your admiration for a while. -Hamlet
Give it an understanding, but no tongue. -Hamlet
Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands: courtsied when you have, and kiss'd the wild waves whist. -The Tempest
The attempt and not the deed confounds us. -Macbeth
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest
He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest
But in the gross and scope of my opinion, this bodes some strange eruption to our state. -Hamlet
Small to greater matters must give way. -Antony and Cleopatra
Epicurean cooks sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. -Antony and Cleopatra
There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew
Men's judgements are a parcel of their fortunes; and things outward do draw the inward quality after them, to suffer all alike. -Antony and Cleopatra
If there be, or ever were, one such, it's past the size of dreaming. -Antony and Cleopatra
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest
Like one who having into truth, by telling of it, made such a sinner of his memory, to credit his own lie. -The Tempest
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -Hamlet
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head. -Hamlet
The eagle suffers little birds to sing. -Titus Andronicus
Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be aliar; but never doubt I love. -Hamlet
To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. -Hamlet
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. -King Henry V
A dream itself is but a shadow. -Hamlet
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. -Hamlet
Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep to undertake the death of all the world, so I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. -Richard III
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, and recks not his own rede. -Hamlet
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence. -Macbeth
Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. -Hamlet
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. -Titus Andronicus
Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. -Hamlet
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John
Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love that inward beauty and invisible, or were I deaf, they outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible. -Venus and Adonis
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. -Hamlet
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -Hamlet
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice.
You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. -King Henry V
I must be cruel, only to be kind: thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. -Hamlet
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out. -King Henry V
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. -Hamlet
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man they ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly they havit as they purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. -Hamlet
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge had stomach for them all. -Othello
When fortune means to men most good, she looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John
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