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May Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
- We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
- This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
- I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
- When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
- The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
- O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
- Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk…
- Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of…
- Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do…
- There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.
- So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion…
- Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace,…
- My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may…
- By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
- The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
- 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…
- Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends;…
- Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players…
- For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
- No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.
- 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…
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