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“The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!”
Chastity Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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“Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't
Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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“Remember, sir, my liege,
The kings your ancestors, together with
The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,
With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats
But suck them up to th' topmast.”
Islands Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Queen, wife to Cymbeline at III, i)
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“Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.”
Glory Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at I, ii)
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“Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.”
Glory Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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“I thank you for your voices, thank you!
Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
I have no further with you.”
Voice Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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“Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.”
Voice Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at V, iii)
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“I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of
their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us;
but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently
as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.”
Voice Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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“O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name!
The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.”
Thieving Quotes Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus at III, i)
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“A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
And put it in his pocket--”
Thieving Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.”
Thieving Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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“A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!”
Thieving Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, ii)
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“Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
From gen'ral excrement.”
Thieving Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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“Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves professed, that you work not
In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft
In limited professions.”
Thieving Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
Thieving Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Duke of Venice at I, iii)
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“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.”
Thieving Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello 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.”
Thieving Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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“But now will canker sorrow eat my bud
And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
And so he'll die; and rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
I shall not know him.”
Meeting Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
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“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
Meeting Quotes Source: Macbeth (First Witch at I, i)
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“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but
I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he
shall never make me such a fool.”
Oysters Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, iii)
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“Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.”
Darkness Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at I, i)
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“The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.”
Darkness Quotes Source: The Tempest (Prospero at V, i)
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“Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!”
Vanity Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”
Vanity Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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“Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?”
Vanity Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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