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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. |
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| ...an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. |
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| ...the beast with two backs. |
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| Keep up [sheathe] your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. |
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My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. |
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She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I lov'd her that she did pity them. |
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For nature so preposterously to err--
Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense--
Sans witchcraft could not. |
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The robb'd that smiles steals, steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. |
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Duke of Venice
I.iii, Othello |
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| She has deceived her father, and may thee. |
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| Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. |
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The Moor is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are. |
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| Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. |
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And this, and this, the greatest discords be
That e'er our hearts shall make! |
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So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all. |
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Men should be what they seem;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none! |
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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. |
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Trifles as light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. |
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. |
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| Long live she so, and long live you to think so! |
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If she be false, O! then heaven mocks itself.
I'll not believe't. |
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'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us. |
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| Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? |
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Heaven me such uses send,
Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend. |
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| O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog! |
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| Put out the light, and then put out the light. |
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I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. |
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| From this time forth I never will speak word. |
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Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak
Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. |
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I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. |
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| Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. |
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| It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. |
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| So shaken as we are, so wan with care. |
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| O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. |
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| There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. |
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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. |
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So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes,
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. |
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By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon. |
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| There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat, and grows old. |
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| Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. |
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Prince Hal
II.iv, Henry IV |
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Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions. |
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| I can call spirits from the vasty deep. |
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| While you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. |
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This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise. |
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Where is his son,
The nimble-footed mad-cap prince of Wales,
And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,
And bid it pass? |
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I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d,
Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropp’d down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship. |
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| Food for powder, food for powder; they’ll fill a pit, as well as better. |
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| No. What is Honour? a word. What is that word, Honour? Air. |
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| Why, thou owest God a death. |
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| Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. |
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| O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth! |
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| I could have better spar'd a better man. |
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| The better part of valour is, discretion. |
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| Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! |
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| Fair is foul, and foul is fair. |
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Definition
Witches (all three)
I.i, Macbeth |
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For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion,
Carv'd out his passage. |
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Bloody Captain
I.ii, Macbeth |
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Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid. |
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First Witch
I.iii, Macbeth |
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| So foul and fair a day I have not seen. |
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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow, and which will not,
Speak. |
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Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner? |
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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. |
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He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust. |
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Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it. |
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Malcolm (on the previous Thane of Cawdor)
I.iv, Macbeth |
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Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires. |
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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. |
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Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty. |
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Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it. |
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly. |
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I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other. |
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I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none. |
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. |
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Lady Macbeth
I.vii, Macbeth |
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| False face must hide what the false heart doth know. |
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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee;
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. |
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Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. |
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Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more. |
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Macbeth (technically he's quoting the voice in his head)
II.ii, Macbeth |
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Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. |
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Lady Macbeth
II.ii, Macbeth |
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? |
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To be thus is nothing,
But to be safely thus. |
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Naught's had, all's spent
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. |
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Lady Macbeth
III.ii, Macbeth |
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Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further. |
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By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. |
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Second Witch
IV.i, Macbeth |
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...none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth. |
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Second Apparition (bloody child)
IV.i, Macbeth |
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| The liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang them. |
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Lady Macduff's son
IV.ii, Macbeth |
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| Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. |
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Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword? |
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Of all men else I have avoided thee.
But get thee back. My soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already. |
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_________ was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd. |
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| We have scorched the snake, not killed it. |
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| Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems." |
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| Frailty, thy name is woman! |
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| A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. |
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The funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. |
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For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute —
No more. |
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. |
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. |
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But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. |
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. |
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This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. |
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| Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. |
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The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown. |
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O most pernicious woman!
O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! |
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As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on. |
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. |
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| Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive; — friend, look to 't. |
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| You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal — except my life — except my life — except my life. |
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| In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true! She is a strumpet. What's the news? |
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| None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. |
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| I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. |
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| O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I! |
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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? |
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The play's the thing,
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. |
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| O! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! |
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O, woe is me
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! |
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| The lady doth protest too much, methinks. |
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| Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. |
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| Tis now the very witching time of night. |
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| O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. |
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. |
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. |
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| O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! |
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If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story. |
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| A little more than kin and less than kind. |
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| I am mad but north-north-west...I know a hawk from a handsaw. |
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| There's a divinity that shapes our ends. |
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time. |
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Hippolyta
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
But earthly happier is the rose distill'd
Than that, which withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. |
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Theseus
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
| The course of true love never did run smooth. |
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Lysander
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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You have her father's love, Demetrius.
Let me have Hermia's. Do you marry him. |
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Lysander
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
| O, hell! to choose love by another’s eye. |
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Hermia
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. |
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Helena
I.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before, milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, —
And maidens call it love-in-idleness. |
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Oberon
II.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
I’ll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes. |
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Puck
II.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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My heart
Is true as steel. |
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Helena
II.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. |
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Quince
III.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could. |
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Bottom
III.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| Lord, what fools these mortals be! |
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Puck
III.ii, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
| I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. |
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Bottom
IV.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. |
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Bottom
IV.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact. |
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Theseus
V.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
For never anything can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it. |
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Definition
Theseus
V.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
| The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. |
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Theseus
V.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| I am a weary of this moon; would he would change! |
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Hippolyta
V.i, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Term
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear. |
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Puck
V.ii, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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