"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and……" — William Shakespeare
"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
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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.
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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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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by…
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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is:…
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I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant…
— William Shakespeare
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They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless…
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