Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
Manners, Kindness, Generation, Comparison, Behavior
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“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare
Music, Love, Appetite, Excess, Yearning
William Shakespeare Music, Love, Appetite, Excess, Yearning“Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.” William Shakespeare
Insult, Contempt, Corruption, Anger, Disease
William Shakespeare Insult, Contempt, Corruption, Anger, Disease“O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.” William Shakespeare
Strength, Femininity, Passion, Shrewdness, Power
William Shakespeare Strength, Femininity, Passion, Shrewdness, Power“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” William Shakespeare
Humanity, Equality, Revenge, Pain, Justice
William Shakespeare Humanity, Equality, Revenge, Pain, Justice“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?” William Shakespeare
Disdain, Wit, Humor, Love, Banter
William Shakespeare Disdain, Wit, Humor, Love, Banter“One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.” William Shakespeare
Love, Risk, Romance, Distance, Intangible
William Shakespeare Love, Risk, Romance, Distance, Intangible“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.” William Shakespeare
Fear, Horror, Resilience, Desensitization, Reflection
William Shakespeare Fear, Horror, Resilience, Desensitization, Reflection“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” William Shakespeare
Madness, Responsibility, Greatness, Watchfulness, Power
William Shakespeare Madness, Responsibility, Greatness, Watchfulness, Power“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.” William Shakespeare
Injury, Strength, Mercy, Wisdom, Self-Preservation
William Shakespeare Injury, Strength, Mercy, Wisdom, Self-Preservation“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” William Shakespeare
Deed, Light, Kindness, Goodness, World
William Shakespeare Deed, Light, Kindness, Goodness, World“The poorest service is repaid with thanks.” William Shakespeare
Service, Gratitude, Humility, Thanks, Generosity
William Shakespeare Service, Gratitude, Humility, Thanks, Generosity“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.” William Shakespeare
Manners, Kindness, Generation, Comparison, Behavior
William Shakespeare Manners, Kindness, Generation, Comparison, Behavior“How well he's read, to reason against reading!” William Shakespeare
Reading, Knowledge, Irony, Wit, Argument
William Shakespeare Reading, Knowledge, Irony, Wit, Argument“Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.” William Shakespeare
Love, Madness, Trickery, Gender, Cupid
William Shakespeare Love, Madness, Trickery, Gender, Cupid“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.” William Shakespeare
Life, Hope, Redemption, Sorrow, Miracle
William Shakespeare Life, Hope, Redemption, Sorrow, Miracle“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!” William Shakespeare
Thanklessness, Child, Parent, Pain, Betrayal
William Shakespeare Thanklessness, Child, Parent, Pain, Betrayal