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- A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- How my achievements mock me!
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
- But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 2
- My love admits no qualifying dross.
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 4
- If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 1
- I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 2
- I am sure care's an enemy to life.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 3
- Present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 3
- Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
- How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
- Foolery... does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
- Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
- Why, this is very midsummer madness.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 4
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, sc. 1
- Bid Suspicion double-lock the door.
- William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
- Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. - William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
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