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States 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.
- Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have…
- 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.
More States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- 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 may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur