Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.

classic lines from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Troilus: Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
The effect doth operate another way.

lines from the play Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1602)
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Sampson: Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.
Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers.

classic lines from Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1597)
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Charles: On what submissive message art thou sent?
Lucy: Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;
We English warriors wot not what it means.

classic lines from the play Henry VI, Act IV, Scene 7, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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King Claudius: The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.

classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Desdemona: Upon my knee, what doth your speech import?
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.

line from the play Othello, Act IV, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1603)
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Horatio: His purse is empty already. All ’s golden words are spent.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Luciana: Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;
Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.

line from the play The Comedy of Errors, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1594)
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Isabella: That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

line from Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1604)
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John of Gaunt: O, but they say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

lines from the play Richard II, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1595)
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

quote by William Shakespeare
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You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

quote by William Shakespeare
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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Speak to me as to thy thinkings, as thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts the worst of words.

William Shakespeare in Othello
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Oxford: For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.
Somerset: Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.

lines from the play Henry VI, Act V, Scene 5, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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