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#shakes

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #shakes




My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.


William Shakespeare


#shakespeare

Oh, I am fortune's fool!


William Shakespeare


#fate #fortune #luck #shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.


William Shakespeare


#suddenness #wisdom #shakespeare

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.


Kurt Vonnegut


#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.


William Shakespeare


#stealing #theft #shakespeare

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.


William Shakespeare


#literature #shakespeare #literature

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)


William Shakespeare


#shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.


William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #adversity

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.


John Fowles


#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare






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