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Wish Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
- God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I…
- Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
- I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
- My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
- 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…
- Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
- Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
- I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
- Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled…
- Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so…
- It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all…
- When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
- Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
- IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never…
- I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
- What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
- I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
- Alonzo. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts. I find They are inclined to do so.Sebastian.…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius