Boys Quotes by William Shakespeare

12 Boys quotes by William Shakespeare

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Even in a modest set of 12 lines, Shakespeare’s keen eye turns the subject of boys into a study of character, curiosity, and the contradictions of growing up.

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a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to…

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This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

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Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

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If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such…

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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n:…

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I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and…

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But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou…

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I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond…

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Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and…

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Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,…

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Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which…

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Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard…

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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

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“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)”

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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

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Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

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Omittance is no quittance.

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“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon…

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I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

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