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- He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 1
- They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 1
- A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it. - William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 2
- 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. - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 3
- Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 5
- Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
- The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us. - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
- By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks! - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
- Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
- Out, damned spot! out, I say!
- William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1
- To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 5
- Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 8
- Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1
- The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
- William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2
- The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
- William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 3 scene 1
- They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad. - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
- Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning. - William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
- What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
- William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
- He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
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