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I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summerhouse in Christendom.
~ William Shakespeare
I sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright Who art cold as Hel, as dark as night
~ William Shakespeare
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
~ William Shakespeare
Making a famine where abundance lies,   Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
~ William Shakespeare
O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet
~ William Shakespeare
Love's night is noon.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll teach you differences.
~ William Shakespeare
The crow signs as sweetly as the lark when no one's paying attention to them, and I think that if the nightingale sang during the day while all the geese were cackling, people would think it sounded no better than a wren. So many things are made perfect and as they should be by good timing! But quiet. Look how the moon won't be awakened. It must be sleeping with  [Endymion
~ William Shakespeare
a raven's heart within a dove.
~ William Shakespeare
The raven chides blackness.
~ William Shakespeare
At this same ancient feast of Capulet's Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov'st, With all the admired beauties of Verona. Go thither, and with unattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
~ William Shakespeare
That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state (55) Esteem him as a lamb, being compared With my confineless harms.
~ William Shakespeare
Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up, For 'tis thy rival.
~ William Shakespeare
More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.
~ William Shakespeare
That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, it seems she hangs against the cheek of night like a rich jewel from an Ethiope's ear, beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
~ William Shakespeare
exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
~ William Shakespeare
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
~ William Shakespeare
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
~ William Shakespeare
bet gal nedera vienos meilÄ—s lyginti su kita
~ William Styron
women are a little different than men.
~ Wilson Rawls
For me, black and white is more realistic than colour. Black and white can be colourful, and colour can be very black and white.
~ Wim Wenders
through all the monotony and the splendor of life.
~ Winston Graham