February 2012
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Sonnet 43
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, How would thy shadow’s form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so! How would, I say,...
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“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a...”
– Prospero, The Tempest, Act IV, scene i
November 2011
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“This above all: to thine ownself be true”
– Polonius, Hamlet, Act I, scene iii
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“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
– Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene iv
July 2011
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“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.”
– Macbeth, Macbeth, Act V, scene viii
November 2010
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“What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and...”
– Hamlet, Hamlet, Act IV, scene iv
October 2010
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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
– King Richard, Richard II, Act V, scene v
February 2010
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“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools”
– Lear, King Lear, Act IV, scene iv
January 2010
12 posts
Sonnet 29
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts my self almost...
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death...”
– Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act II, scene ii
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“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players”
– Jaques, As You Like It, Act II, scene vii
“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.”
– Antonio, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene iii
December 2009
4 posts
“Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s...”
– Marcellus, Hamlet, Act I, scene i
Heigh Ho, The Holly
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly; most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits...
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s...”
– Biron, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, scene i
“I burn, I pine, I perish”
– Lucentio, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, scene ii
November 2009
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“Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto...”
– sonnet 47
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135 Phrases coined by William Shakespeare
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Barry Manilow may claim to write the songs, but it was William Shakespeare who coined the phrases. He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual - and most of them are still in daily use. Here’s a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare....
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September 2009
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The Wind And The Rain, from Twelfth Night (1996)
“Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes...”
– Porter, Macbeth, Act II, scene ii
August 2009
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“I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet...”
– Wolsey, Henry VIII, Act III, scene ii
Hamlet, Act III, scene ii
Hamlet: Madam, how like you this play?
Queen Gertrude: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love...”
– sonnet 116
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“The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire in the blood.”
– Prospero, The Tempest, Act IV, scene i
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be...”
– Hamlet, Hamlet, Act II, scene ii
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July 2009
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do you prefer the 1996 or the 1968 version of...
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the...
"I love you with so much of my heart that none is...