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Alonso: I cannot too much muse
Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
line from The Tempest, Act III, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare
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Falstaff: O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass!
classic line from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1602)
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Hamlet: Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats will not debate the question of this straw.
classic line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Infanta: His dancing was funny; but his acting is funnier still. Indeed he is almost as good as the puppets, only of course not quite so natural.
classic line from House of Pomegranates (The Birthday of the Infanta), script by Oscar Wilde (1892)
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Valentine: Come not within the measure of my wrath;
Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,
Verona shall not hold thee.
line from the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1593)
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Antony: The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
line from the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare
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Pompey: Come, fear not you: good counsellors lack no clients.
classic lines from Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1604)
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Cassandra: Pah! the house fumes with stench and spilth of blood.
Chorus: How? 'tis the smell of household offerings.
lines from Agamemnon by Aeschylus, translated by E.D.A. Morshead
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Troilus: Are there such? Such are not we. Praise us as we are
tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go bare till merit
crown it. No perfection in reversion shall have a praise in
present. We will not name desert before his birth; and, being
born, his addition shall be humble.
line from the play Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1602)
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Jaques: All the world‘s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse‘s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress‘ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon‘s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper‘d pantaloon,
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lines from As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7 by William Shakespeare (1599)
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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