"I see you stand like greyhounds in the……" — William Shakespeare
"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
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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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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so…
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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