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Word Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
- You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
- When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on…
- Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
- Hear the meaning within the word....
- By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.…
- Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings
- And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear…
- That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
- 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…
- How long a time lies in one little word?
- Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
- He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry…
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
- Pardon's the word to all.
- Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
- Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear…
- I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from…
- I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
- Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
- What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died…
- Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
- In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the…
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