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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«O God! methinks it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,Thereby to see the minutes how they run,How many make the hour full complete;How many hours bring about the day;How many days will finish up the year;How many years a mortal man may live.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dials, finish up, happy hour, Happy Life, mortal man, quaintly, swain, swains, thereby
«I have been studying how I may compareThe prison where I live unto the world.»
«Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feigning, Holly, jollier, jolly
«...the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the mazed worldBy their increase, now knows not which is which.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
autumn, Liveries, livery, wonted
«In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Above the Law, buys, corrupted, currents, gild, gilded, offence, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, the Action
«This done he took the bride about the neck - and kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting, all the church did echo»
«We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.»
«Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!»
«I have supped full with horrors.»
«The lady doth protest too much, methinks.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
protest, The Lady
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