"I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them."
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"The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me."
"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
"Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done."
"Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough."
"Take it in what sense thou wilt."
"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature."
"Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman."
"Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side."
"Seek happy nights to happy days.W"
"If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!"
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
"I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him."
"He kills her in her own humor."
"She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me."
"By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf."
"Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true."
"This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."