Foolish Quotes by William Shakespeare

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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

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When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

William Shakespeare

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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

William Shakespeare

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“That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true —a foolish figure,”

William Shakespeare

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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men…

William Shakespeare

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Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;…

William Shakespeare

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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in…

William Shakespeare

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This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,…

William Shakespeare

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How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with…

William Shakespeare

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Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.…

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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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“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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