"Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we……" — William Shakespeare
"Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency."
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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 Changeful Quotes
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke…
— Charlotte Bronte
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
— Mark Twain
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream,…
— Walter Scott
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The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position…
— Honore de Balzac
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Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away
— Emily Bronte
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There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft…
— Sarah Doudney
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