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Quotes About Transformation

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.
~ William Shakespeare
The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
~ William Shakespeare
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
~ William Shakespeare
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.
~ William Shakespeare
Coal-black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
~ William Shakespeare
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.
~ William Shakespeare
At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun
~ William Shakespeare
You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
~ William Shakespeare
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.
~ William Shakespeare
For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates.
~ William Shakespeare
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
~ William Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
~ William Shakespeare
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
~ William Shakespeare
my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.
~ William Shakespeare
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
~ William Shakespeare
Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
~ William Shakespeare
My desolation does begin to make a better life.
~ William Shakespeare
Come, Lady, die to live.
~ William Shakespeare
Sycorax has grown into a hoop
~ William Shakespeare
O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!
~ William Shakespeare
When in that moment,—so it came to pass,— Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.
~ William Shakespeare
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;
~ William Shakespeare