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- O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone! - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words. - William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
- 'Tis neither here nor there.
- William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 3
- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
- Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- A plague o' both your houses!
- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 3 scene 1
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
- William Shakespeare, "The Comedy of Errors", Act 3 scene 1
- When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
- My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
- It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
- The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. - William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 4 scene 1
- I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
- It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
- Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
- William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3
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