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- Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent. - William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
- Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
- I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1
- What a deformed thief this fashion is.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
- I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
- I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 2 scene 1
- Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone! - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
- 'Tis neither here nor there.
- William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 3
- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
- Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- A plague o' both your houses!
- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 3 scene 1
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