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“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.

“Sweets to the sweet.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Romeo, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: What light through yonder window breaks?
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Source: King Henry VI, Part 2

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

William Shakespeare

Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“thus with a kiss I die”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet