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Quite Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
- 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…
- 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…
- Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by…
- Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
- Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
- Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the…
- Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand…
- I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and…
- A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...
- 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…
- 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;…
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