"Ambition, the soldier's virtue."
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William Shakespeare quotes (page 53 of 202)
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"The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!"
"I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue."
"[Thine] face is not worth sunburning."
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."
"Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing."
"Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!"
"A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!"
"Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."
"The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."
"Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
"I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king."
"Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!"
"Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?"
"If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not."
"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."
"I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace."
"Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."