"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."
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"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
"A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff."
"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
"Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots."
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
"These words are razors to my wounded heart."
"Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings"
"There is a tide in the affairs of men"
"Nothing can come of nothing."
"My only love sprung from my only hate."
"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
"So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem."
"But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God."
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
"Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks."
"No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy."
"My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
"Desperate times breed desperate measures"