"I love a ballad but even too well……" — William Shakespeare
"I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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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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More Ballad Quotes
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
— William Wordsworth
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
— William Shakespeare
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Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story…
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings…
— David Massengill
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then…
— Michael Jackson
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I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember…
— Chris Brown
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,…
— LaToya London
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Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the…
— Phyllis Hyman
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To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the…
— Al Jarreau
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
— Chrissie Hynde
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But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
— John Fogerty
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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare…
— William Shakespeare
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