"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing……" — William Shakespeare
"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
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William Shakespeare
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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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More Drowsy Quotes
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
— Michel Foucault
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved…
— Sara Teasdale
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all…
— James Russell Lowell
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
— George Jean Nathan
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
— Eudora Welty
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to…
— Mary Stewart
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull…
— William Shakespeare
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