Men and women Quotes by William Shakespeare

11 Men and women quotes by William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s take on gender dynamics comes through in eleven brief verses. This snapshot offers a quick, flavorful look at his timeless observations.

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A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's

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

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All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

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O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

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Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think, I must speak

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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

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Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;…

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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one…

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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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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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