English - Dramatist | April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare
MoneyNorBorrowerLenderNeither
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
ChildThanToothThanklessSerpent
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
WorkGodManMovingAngelAction
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
FortuneSomeBoatsBringsSteered
O, had I but followed the arts!
ArtsFollowedHad
Farewell, fair cruelty.
FairCrueltyFarewell
By that sin fell the angels.
SinAngelsFell
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
FaultMakeWorseExcuseDoth
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
WomanI AmHopelessAlasAm
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
LifeManEarDullTediousTale
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
FireHeavenInventionMuseWould
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
DeathBetterNothingRustMotion
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