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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]

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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 o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!: William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.: William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
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.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.: William Shakespeare, 'King Henry IV part I'
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: William Shakespeare, 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure'
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare, 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.: William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.: William Shakespeare, 'Twelfth Night'
Cursed be he that moves my bones.: William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters...: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 1 scene 5
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.: William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.: William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.: William Shakespeare, Sonnet xxx
Exit, pursued by a bear.: William Shakespeare, Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.: William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.: William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
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How my achievements mock me!: William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV

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