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

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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 2
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It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.: William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act II, sc. 3
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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.: William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, sc. I
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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.: William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, sc. 1
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To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.: William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 2
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.: William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 4
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.: William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
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Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.: William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, sc. 3
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Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.: William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, sc. I
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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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O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4
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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 1
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