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- Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
- William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, sc. 3
- Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, sc. I
- The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4
- If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 1
- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 1
- I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- If love be blind, it best agrees with night.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 3
- O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 5
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