"Falsehood falsehood cures"
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William Shakespeare quotes (page 170 of 202)
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"And makes me poor indeed."
"Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation"
"How now, wit! Whither wander you?"
"Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is."
"There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death."
"And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?"
"For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard."
"There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords."
"Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?"
"Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse."
"The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars."
"Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better."
"Be to yourself as you would to your friend."
"You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?"
"Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands."
"To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature."
"Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest."
"If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make."
"Fairies use flowers for their charactery."