"Teach me, dear creature, how to think and……" — William Shakespeare
"Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit."
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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 Conceit Quotes
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
— Aesop
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes…
— Watchman Nee
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Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease,…
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart…
— Janet Morris
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
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