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Writing Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
- O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all…
- If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet…
- Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention:…
- Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
- Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write…
- People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
- Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them…
- Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear…
- To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
- He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
- To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature
- To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
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