"And worse I may be yet: the worst……" — William Shakespeare
"And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous…
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to…
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
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I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it…
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Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
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Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name…
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