"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes." — William Shakespeare
"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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- Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
- People usually are the happiest at home.
- In delay there lies no plenty.
- Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
- Grief makes one hour ten.
- Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
- I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
- He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.