"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in……" — William Shakespeare
"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies."
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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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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
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Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when…
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're…
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Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
— Solomon
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally…
— Laurence Sterne
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for…
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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even…
— John Donne
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone…
— Alexander Pope
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Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now,…
— Stephen Harrigan
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This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas,…
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