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Common Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
- These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
- The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
- Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you…
- Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when…
- Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.
- This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general…
- Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
- I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
- You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
- You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied…
- Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
- But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he…
- For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncanhave I murdered; Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for…
- A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin