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First Quotes by William Shakespeare
- See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved…
- Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet…
- A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I…
- That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,…
- Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the…
- Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first:…
- There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last…
- Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers…
- Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
- And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater
- First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
- When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name…
- I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be…
- Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.
- Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in…
- Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.
- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
- To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
- O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
- For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
- Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,…
- One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
- Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and…
- Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence…
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