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- How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
- Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
- Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act II, sc. 4
- Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act III, sc. 4
- Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act IV, sc. 6
- Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act IV, sc. 6
- Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 1
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