I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare in Much Ado about Nothing
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That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Celia: By my troth, thou sayest true. For, since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

classic line from the play As You Like It, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Romeo: Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man.

classic line from Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1597)
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare in As You Like It
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Falstaff: O powerful love! that, in some respects, makes a beast a man; in some other, a man a beast.

line from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1602)
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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Prospero: Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.

classic line from the play The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1611)
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare in Othello
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Polonius: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.

classic line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Laertes: O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits should be as moral as an old man's life?

classic line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Iago: Men should be what they seem; or those that be not, would they might seem none!

line from Othello, Act III, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1603)
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Antony: The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

line from the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

classic line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Antipholus of Syracuse: Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.
Dromio of Syracuse: Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.

lines from the play The Comedy of Errors, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1594)
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