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Speech Quotes by William Shakespeare
- My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
- 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…
- 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…
- First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your…
- Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
- Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
- A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
- For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right…
- Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it…
- Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy…
- His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
- Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine…
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- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
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