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- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such…
- Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle…
- Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever…
- . . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou…
- Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble…
- One man in his time plays many parts.
- Play out the play ...
- Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed…
- If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
- Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
- Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look…
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his…
- I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
- If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
- And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the…
- The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
- Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While…
- There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
- Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
- This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on…
- Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
- Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so…
- He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;…
- I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more…
- Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy…
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