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Quotes from Shakespeare

She has vowed never to love: and that vow means I must endure a living death.
~ Shakespeare
Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all;
~ Shakespeare
And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops...
~ Shakespeare
Observe him, for the love of mockery
~ Shakespeare
What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart
~ Shakespeare
Foul whisperings are abroad
~ Shakespeare
Well said, old mole!
~ Shakespeare
I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!
~ Shakespeare
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse place can I beg in your love,-- And yet a place of high respect with me,-- Than to be used as you use your dog?
~ Shakespeare
Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art.
~ Shakespeare
For raging wind blows up incessant showers
~ Shakespeare
A fool and his words are soon parted
~ Shakespeare
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
~ Shakespeare
Get lost, you dwarf, you weed, you scrap, you acorn.
~ Shakespeare
Love is merely madness.
~ Shakespeare
The road to true love never did run smooth.
~ Shakespeare
to be, or not to be?
~ Shakespeare
Find though she be but little, she is fierce.
~ Shakespeare
Possessed he is with greatness and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.
~ Shakespeare
Young men love, then lie. Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
~ Shakespeare
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet
~ Shakespeare