If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Author: William Shakespeare
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
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Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Comedy of Errors", Act 3 scene 1
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Cursed be he that moves my bones.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Epitaph on his gravestone
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Author: Sophocles
Work: Oedipus at Colonus
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Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
Author: William Shakespeare
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But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
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The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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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
Author: William Shakespeare
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2
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