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Been Quotes by William Shakespeare
- They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
- The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
- Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
- I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
- . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To…
- Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
- But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you…
- I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned…
- They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
- Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming.…
- My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
- Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an…
- I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here…
- Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded;…
- Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
- Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
- Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
- So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried…
- Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
- If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
- Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
- Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in…
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;…
- Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took…
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