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Sleep Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps…
- O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my…
- After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
- Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the…
- Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
- If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
- Death-counterfeiting sleep.
- For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
- 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…
- He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache
- O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.
- Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
- How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains…
- A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.
- Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
- O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which…
- We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
- Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like…
- Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.
- To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
- What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he…
- Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great…
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