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- What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
- How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
- He hath eaten me out of house and home.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
- 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 (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
- I dote on his very absence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
- A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 1 scene 1
- I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
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