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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bodies, gardeners, gardens, wills
«As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, bent, bent on, enters, idly, theatre, The Stage
«Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Spirit
| Keywords:
wittiest, witty
«But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
screw, sticking
«O! I am fortune's fool!»
«Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath»
«Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dukedom, furnished, furnished with, furnishing, library, mine, prize, prizing, volumes
«Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.»
«All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
discharged, discharges, discharging, less than, lovers, perfection, perform, performance, reserve, reserves, reserving, swear, swears, swear in, ten, tenth, tenth part, vowing
«Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
deserves, madmen, whip, whipping
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