Literature:Shakespeare

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint, Exupery

Not exactly Shakespeare? As to "shake-a-spear"? You calling me a spear chucker?

- Eddie Murphy

Not exactly Shakespeare? As to "shake-a-spear"? You calling me a spear chucker?

- Eddie Murphy

"Frailty, thy name is woman"

- Hamlet

"What an ass am I!"

- Hamlet

"How can'st thou be out of breath, when thou hast the breath to say to me that thou art out of breath???"

- Juliet

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered

- Lago, "Othello" ( ? )

"Friendship is present in all things but love"

- Much Ado About Nothing

Speak low, if you speak love

- Much Ado About Nothing, Ii, I, 104.

"Oh, i am slain!"

- Polonius

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound"

- Romeo

By me sad hours seem long...

- Romeo

Tis not so deep as a well, nor wide as a church door, but mind you tis enough. Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.

- Shakespear

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."

- Shakespear

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

- Shakespear, A Midsummer Night's Dream (III, ii, 115)

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

- Shakespeare

"My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown, and known too late." Juliet, Romeo and Juliet

- Shakespeare

It is a heretic which builds a fire, not she who burns in't.

- Shakespeare

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

- Shakespeare

"I was the more decieved..." -Ophelia from "Hamlet"

- Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

- Shakespeare

I would I were a weaver.

- Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and there for is wing'd cupid painted blind.

- Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, [Helena]

Love is merely a maddness.

- William Shakespeare

the miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

- William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth

- William Shakespeare

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.

- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 1 ( ? )

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