William Shakespeare

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
William Shakespeare

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]
William Shakespeare

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
William Shakespeare

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
William Shakespeare

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
William Shakespeare

In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
William Shakespeare

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
William Shakespeare

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
William Shakespeare

This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
William Shakespeare

O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
William Shakespeare

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
William Shakespeare

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
William Shakespeare

Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
William Shakespeare

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
William Shakespeare

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
William Shakespeare

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
William Shakespeare

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
William Shakespeare

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

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
William Shakespeare

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
William Shakespeare

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!
William Shakespeare

Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]
William Shakespeare

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
William Shakespeare

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
William Shakespeare

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
William Shakespeare

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
William Shakespeare

Soft pity enters an iron gate.
William Shakespeare

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
William Shakespeare

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare

If they only would kill all lawyers and doctors
William Shakespeare

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
William Shakespeare

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
William Shakespeare

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
William Shakespeare

'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.
William Shakespeare

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
William Shakespeare

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