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Cities Quotes by William Shakespeare
- What is the city but the people?
- And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
- That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps…
- Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have…
- I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it…
- O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder of all highdesigns, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in…
More Cities Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman