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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Reflection
| Keywords:
allot, allots, allotted, The Business
«What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet»
«Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.»
«No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect»
«If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
eternal sleep, slumber, slumbers
«I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
churlish, circumstance, countercheck, courteous, degrees, fifth, fourth, modest, quarrelsome, quip, Quips, reply, reproof, reproofs, retort, retorted, seventh, sixth, valiant
«That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
being bold, bold, bolder, boldest, drunk
«I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman»
«The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Beginning
| Keywords:
cock, cock up, morn, trumpet
«Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.»
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