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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. More
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face... More
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a... More
... I want to live and be happy. I believe that we cannot be one or the other by pushing the... More
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
... like anyone else who does not have a soul, you cannot stand anyone who has too much of one.... More
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to... More
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy.... More
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how... More
... we may leisurely
Each one demand and answer to his part
Performed in this wide gap of... More
...I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man’s world and was forbidden... More
1st Guard. Is this well done?
Charmian. It is well done, and fitting for a... More
1st Lady. Madam, we’ll tell tales.
Queen. Of sorrow or of joy?
1st Lady. Of either,... More
1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It... More
1st Witch. When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
2nd Witch.... More
3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land:... More
A brother noble,
Whose nature is so far from doing harms
That he suspects none. More
A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical. More
A city on whom plenty held full hand,
For riches strewed herself even in her... More
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or... More
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. More
A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it. More
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns... More
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I do honor thee! More
A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this... More
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more... More
A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. More
A fellow almost damned in a fair wife. More
A fellow of no mark nor livelihood. More
A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell. More
A fool’s bolt is soon shot. More
A forest bird never wants a cage. More
A fox may steal your hens, Sir,
A whore your health and pence, Sir,
Your daughter rob... More
A friend i’the court is better than a penny in purse. More
A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. More
A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will... More
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. More
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest,... More
A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a fair face will... More
A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast. More
A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels. More
A good old commander and a most kind gentleman. More
A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, “When the age is in, the wit is out.” More
A good person, striving dimly,
Is well aware of the right path. More
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
ascends me into the brain,... makes it... More
A good soft pillow for that good white head
Were better than a churlish turf of France. More
A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn diseases
to commodity. More
A goodly portly man, i’faith, and a corpulent, of a cheerful
look, a pleasing eye, and a... More
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun. More
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that’s all... More
A harmless necessary cat. More
A heavier task could not have been imposed
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. More
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep. More
A hit, a very palpable hit. More
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! More
A hovering temporizer, that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to... More
A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him... More
A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. More
A kind of Pythagorean terror, as though the irrationality of pi were an offence against the... More
A largess universal, like the sun,
His liberal eye doth give to everyone,
Thawing cold fear. More
A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one... More
A light heart lives long. More
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
Lay couching, head on ground, with cat-like... More
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband. More
A little touch of Harry in the night. More
A little water clears us of this deed.
How easy is it then! More
A lover may bestride the gossamers
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall;... More
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of... More
A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound. More
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. More
A man can die but once, we owe God a death. More
A man can no more separate age and covetousness than ‘a can
part young limbs and lechery. More
A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his... More
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. More
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears;
see how yond justice... More
A man of honor is so rare an animal in this world that I could not stand the sight of him for too... More
A man of travel, that hath seen the world. More
A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.
Stiff in... More
A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and... More
A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards
Hath ta’en with equal thanks. More
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin... More
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked... More
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people... More
A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions... More
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one... More
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides;... More
A milksop, one that never in his life
Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow. More
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but... More
A new disease? I know not, new or old,
But it may well be called poor mortals’... More
A peace is of the nature of a conquest,
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And... More
A peevish self-willed harlotry,
One that no persuasion can do good upon. More
A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! More
A plague o’ both your houses.
They have made worms’ meat of me. More
A plague o’ these pickle herring! More
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another! More
A plague upon it!
I have forgot the map. More
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is as brief as I have known a... More
A playwright ... is ... the litmus paper of the arts. He’s got to be, because if he isn’t... More
A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. More
A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed. More

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