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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
William Shakespeare in ACTING AND ACTORS
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare in ACTION
Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
William Shakespeare in ACTION
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare in ADDICTION
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
William Shakespeare in ADOLESCENCE
O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
William Shakespeare in ADULTERY
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy
William Shakespeare in ADVERSITY
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
William Shakespeare in AGE AND AGING
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
William Shakespeare in AGE AND AGING
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]
William Shakespeare in AGE AND AGING
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
William Shakespeare in ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
William Shakespeare in ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
William Shakespeare in BEARDS
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
William Shakespeare in BEAUTY
To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare in BEAUTY
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
William Shakespeare in BED
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William Shakespeare in BEREAVEMENT
I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
William Shakespeare in BILLS
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare in BIRTHDAY
How far that little candle throws his beams!
William Shakespeare in BIRTHDAY
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye'd, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare in BIRTHDAY
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare in BOOKS AND READING
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
William Shakespeare in BORES AND BOREDOM
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
William Shakespeare in BREVITY
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
William Shakespeare in CAUTION
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
William Shakespeare in CAUTION
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare in CENSORSHIP
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
William Shakespeare in CEREMONY
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
William Shakespeare in CHARM
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
William Shakespeare in CHASTITY
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