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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«The treasury of everlasting joy.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
everlasting, Treasuries, treasury
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, indecencies, indecency, novel, scurrility, wittiest, witty
«For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
ale, dish, do the dishes, king, quart, quarts, The Dish
«Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Enemies,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
Brains, mouths, Oh God, steal, steal away
«The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
act as, Arab, cheerfully, cheerfulness, folds, replace, silently, sit up, spontaneous, steals, steal away, tent, The Wee, voluntary, wee
«Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
Every Little Thing
«O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
devil, Hast, invisible, let us know, name calling, No Name, Thee, The Devil You Know, thou, wine
«I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
confounding, confounds, drop, falling, fellow, forth, inquisitive, ocean, seeks, unseen
«I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
peck, pecking, peck at, sleeve, wear
«Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
brook, deep water, running water, runs, smooth, The Water
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