William Shakespeare
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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!"
Lady Macbeth quotes
Lady Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
William Shakespeare
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"Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it."
William Shakespeare
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"A little water clears us of this deed."
William Shakespeare
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"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
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"I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
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"I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts"
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"Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side"
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"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man."
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"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire."
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
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"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
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"I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."
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"And nothing is, but what is not."
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"Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
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"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not."
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"The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand."
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"To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue."
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"To beguile the time, look like the time."
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"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat."
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