William Shakespeare

(153 votes)   Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(153 votes)   This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(153 votes)   To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(152 votes)   Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(151 votes)   Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(150 votes)   For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(149 votes)   Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(149 votes)   He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(149 votes)   O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(148 votes)   Conscience does make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(148 votes)   Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(148 votes)   That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(148 votes)   To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(146 votes)   Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(146 votes)   Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare
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