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- Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- A plague o' both your houses!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Romeo and Juliet", Act 3 scene 1
- The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry VI Part II", Act 4 scene 1
- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
- 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
- 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
- Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
- O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 2 scene 1
- Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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