“These violent delights have violent ends.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Hero, Act III, scene i.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
Variant: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Source: Macbeth