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Once Quotes by William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once.
- As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
- Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
- God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I…
- Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, shall never find it more.
- If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
- I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
- This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
- Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of…
- 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,…
- Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt…
- I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my…
- The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot…
- But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
- To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
- Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- I was adored once too.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It…
- Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and…
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a…
- By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will…
- I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know…
- Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins