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“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“In jest, there is truth.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest,
Leave thy drink and thy whore
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in
palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son
and father. This villain of mine comes under the
prediction; there's son against father: the king
falls from bias of nature; there's father against
child. We have seen the best of our time:
machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall
lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the
noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves...”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“You think I’ll weep?
No, I’ll not weep. Storm and tempest.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or e’re I’ll weep.—O Fool, I shall go mad.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“How does your patient, doctor?

Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.

Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.

Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“What, you egg?”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
― Dante Alighieri