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“Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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“Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing.
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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“Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i)
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“They laugh that win!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i)
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“'Tis neither here nor there.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at IV, iii)
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“I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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“Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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“Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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“One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
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“One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cleon at I, iv)
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“One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii)
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“Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii)
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“Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio & Romeo & Mercutio at I, iv)
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“Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, v)
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“And what love can do, that does love attempt.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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“At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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“I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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“What's in a name?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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“Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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“The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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