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“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

William Shakespeare

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“But she makes hungry
Where she most satisfies…”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence”

William Shakespeare

“Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V”

William Shakespeare Cymbeline

Source: Cymbeline

“His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear