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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
English dramatist and poet
(1564 - 1616)
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Follow thy drum;
  With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules!
    Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;
      Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine
        Hath in her more destruction than thy sword
          For all her cherubin look.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at IV, iii) [War]

The learned pate
  Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;
    There's nothing level in our cursed natures
      But direct villainy.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at IV, iii) [Villainy]

Trust not the physician;
  His antidotes are poison, and he slays
    More than you rob.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at IV, iii) [Medicine]

What an alteration of honour has
  Desperate want made!
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Flavius at IV, iii) [Proverbs]

When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in thy rags thou know'st none, but art despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for thee; eat it.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Apemantus at IV, iii) [Curiosity]

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.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at IV, iii) [Thieving]

My long sickness
  Of health and living now begins to mend,
    And nothing brings me all things.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at V, i) [Sickness]

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Painter at V, i) [Expectation]

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Timon at V, i) [Alchemy]

Dead
  Is noble Timon, of whose memory
    Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
      And I will use the olive with my sword,
        Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
          Prescribe to other, as each other's leech.
            Let our drums strike.
      - The Life of Timon of Athens
         (Alcibiades at V, iv)
        [Books (Last Lines)]

But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
        [Bait]

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, when you have them they are not worth the search.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at I, i)
        [Reason]

I am Sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
      - The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
        [Oracle]

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano--
  A stage where every man must play a part,
    And mine a sad one.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, i)
        [World]

In my schooldays, when I had lost one shaft
  I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight
    The selfsame way, with more advised watch,
      To find the other forth; and by adventuring both
        I oft found both.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at I, i)
        [Prudence]

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, i)
        [Books (First Lines)]

Let me play the fool;
  With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
        [Proverbs]

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, i)
        [Proverbs]

Now by two-headed Janus,
  Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
    Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
      And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,
        And other of such vinegar aspect
          That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile
            Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Solanio at I, i)
        [Character]

Thanks i' faith; for silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
        [Silence]

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
  And let my liver rather heat with wine
    Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
        [Merriment]

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii)
        [Man]

Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
  To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia;
    Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
      For the four winds blow in from every coast
        Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
          Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
            Which makes her seat of Belmont Colcho's strond,
              And many Jasons come in quest of her.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at I, ii)
        [Hair]

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii)
        [Absence]

If I can catch him once upon the hip,
  I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
      - The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, ii)
        [Revenge]


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