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It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.

--William Shakespeare

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

--William Shakespeare

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

--William Shakespeare

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

--William Shakespeare

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

--William Shakespeare

The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

--William Shakespeare

Longer Version:

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.


The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

--William Shakespeare

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

--William Shakespeare

Can I go forward when my heart is here?

--William Shakespeare

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

--William Shakespeare

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

--William Shakespeare

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

--William Shakespeare

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

--William Shakespeare

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

--William Shakespeare

I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

--William Shakespeare

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

--William Shakespeare

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​.

--William Shakespeare

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

--William Shakespeare

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

--William Shakespeare

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

--William Shakespeare

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

--William Shakespeare

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

--William Shakespeare

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

--William Shakespeare

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

--William Shakespeare

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

--William Shakespeare

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

--William Shakespeare

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

--William Shakespeare

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

--William Shakespeare

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

--William Shakespeare

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

--William Shakespeare

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

--William Shakespeare

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

--William Shakespeare

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

--William Shakespeare

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

--William Shakespeare

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

--William Shakespeare

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

--William Shakespeare

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

--William Shakespeare

Every fair from fair sometime declines.

--William Shakespeare

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

--William Shakespeare

I am declined
Into the vale of years.

--William Shakespeare

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

--William Shakespeare

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

--William Shakespeare

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

--William Shakespeare

I am falser than vows made in wine.

--William Shakespeare

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

--William Shakespeare

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

--William Shakespeare

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

--William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

--William Shakespeare

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

--William Shakespeare

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

--William Shakespeare

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

--William Shakespeare

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame.

--William Shakespeare

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

--William Shakespeare

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

--William Shakespeare

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

--William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

--William Shakespeare

Juliet is the east and I am the sun.

--William Shakespeare

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

--William Shakespeare

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

--William Shakespeare

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

--William Shakespeare

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

--William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

--William Shakespeare

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself.

--William Shakespeare

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

--William Shakespeare

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

--William Shakespeare

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

--William Shakespeare

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

--William Shakespeare

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

--William Shakespeare

Faint heart never won fair maid.

--William Shakespeare

I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it.

--William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

--William Shakespeare

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

--William Shakespeare

He will fence with his own shadow.

--William Shakespeare

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

--William Shakespeare

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

--William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

--William Shakespeare

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

--William Shakespeare

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

--William Shakespeare

As merry as the day is long.

--William Shakespeare

It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.

--William Shakespeare

And what's he then that says I play the villain?

--William Shakespeare

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

--William Shakespeare

If is a custom,
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

--William Shakespeare

Good madonna, give me leave to
prove you a fool.

--William Shakespeare

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

--William Shakespeare

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

--William Shakespeare

My love admits no qualifying dross.

--William Shakespeare

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

--William Shakespeare

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

--William Shakespeare

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

--William Shakespeare

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

--William Shakespeare

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.

--William Shakespeare

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

--William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his time.

--William Shakespeare

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

--William Shakespeare

But doth must suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

--William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity.

--William Shakespeare

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

--William Shakespeare

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

--William Shakespeare

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

--William Shakespeare

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