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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 2
It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.
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William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
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William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act II, sc. 3
The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
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William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, sc. I
They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
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William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, sc. 1
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
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William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 2
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
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William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 4
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
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William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
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