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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7
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.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc.3
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 5
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, sc. 1
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, sc.1
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc.2
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, sc. 6
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 1
If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 2
Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 3
The beast with many heads butts me away.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, sc. 1
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 3
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying.
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William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2
Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.
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William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4
Men's vows are women's traitors!
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William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4
Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers come to dust.
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William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, sc. 2
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