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State Quotes by William Shakespeare
- 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…
- Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day:
- Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms,…
- O wretched state! o bosom black as death!
- Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
- Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he…
- Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in…
- The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
- My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but…
- When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
- Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and…
- I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous…
- in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left…
- Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme;…
- You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still I am King of those.
- You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
- Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness. This is the state of man; todayhe puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms, And…
More State Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet