Shakespeare's Timeless One Liners.

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An old man is twice a child.

Rosencrantz. in Hamlet.

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The wounds invisible that love's keen arrows make.

As You Like It. Act 3.


Age cannot wither her,
Nor custom stale
her infinite variety.

Antony And Cleopatra. Act 2.
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Men's evil manners live in brass;
their virtues we write in water.

Henry V111. Part 3. Act 4.

Household word:

It smells to heaven. Hamlet. Act

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Let Hercules himself do what he may.
The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

Hamlet Act 5.

House hold word. What a piece of work is a man.
Hamlet Act 2.

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Your tale, Sir would cure deafness.

The Tempest. Act 1.
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A plague on both your houses.
They have made worm's meat of me.

Romeo And Juliet. Act 3.
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When he is best,
He is a little worse than a man,
When he is worst,
He is little better than a beast...... Of Shylock.

Merchant Of Venice. Act 1.
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God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man..... referring to Shylock.

Merchant of Venice, Act 1.

Household word;
Sharper than a serpent's tooth.
King Lear, Act 1.
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

King Henry V1, Act 4.

Any one against? Unless he is suing your doctor or your insurance?

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Kill thy physician,
And the fee bbestow
Upon the disease.

King Lear, Act 1.

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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.

King Lear, Act 4.

Household word.
Eaten me out of house and home.

King Henry, Act 2.

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The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns,
puzzles the will and makes us rather bear
those ills we have than fly
to others we know not of.

Hamlet Act, 3.

We will rather bear all the ills, hardships and hear aches here
than go away to some unknown place from where we can never hope to return.
If we can return it would be just like going to Toronto or London.

Household word.

Tower of strength. King Richard 111, Act 5.

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As flies to wanton boys
are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.

King Lear, Act 4.

Does not say well about those to whom we pray...

Household word.

Get thee to a nunnery.
Hamlet Act 3.

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The end of life cancels all bands.

King Henry 1V.

End of life releases us from all - enemies, bill collectors, donation appeals, even from doting loved ones.

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Fear no more the heat of the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
home art gone and taken thy wages.

Cymbeline, Act 4.

the time has come to rest...in peace.?

Household Word.

The rest is silence.
Hamlet Act 5.

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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king,
And eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm.

Hamlet Act 4.

Life's cycle: Worm eats man... fish eats worm.... man eats fish that ate the worm that ate the man.

Confusing ?. Who cares .. Man already eaten by worm..

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Imperious Caesar , dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

Conquer the world, have Cleopatra at your feet and yet finally all you
are good for is to stuff a whole in the wall.

Hamlet, Act 5.

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Of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves,
Of worms, and epitaphs;
and with rainy eyes write
sorrow on the bosom of the earth;
Let's choose executors and talk of wills.

King Richard 11.

When we finally face death as all even clowns and kings must, avoid a lot of b.s. and talk of
epitaphs and executors and wills.

Household word.

Neither rhyme nor reason.

The Comedy Of Errors, Act 2.

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Golden lads and girls all must,
as chimney-sweepers come to dust.

Cymbeline Act 4.

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
creeps in this petty pace from day today,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out,out, brief candle.

Macbeth Act 5.

Household word:
What is past is prologue.
The Tempest Act 2.

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Shakespeare's famous One-Liners:

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Hamlet Act 3.

Shakespeare was not good at math. There are two questions in the above statement.

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It's the strumpet's plague to beguile many
and be beguiled by one.

Othello Act 5.

No matter how smart a woman is giving the slip to men
she will finally be smitten by one.


Household word.

Good Night, Ladies.

Hamlet Act 4.

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Great with child, and longing..for stewed prunes.

Measure For Measure, Act 2.

Today pregnant mothers send their husbands for pickles and ice cream (Dairy Queen).
In the 16th century the placebo of choice was stewed prunes.

Household word.

Stood on ceremonies.

Julius Caesar Act 2.

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Shakespeare's famous one-liners.

Do you not know I am a woman?
When I think I must speak.

As You Like It, Act 3.

Shakespeare a chauvinist? Not by a long shot.

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Shakespeare's famous one -liners.

The lady doth protest too much, me thinks.

Hamlet, Act 3.

House hold word:

Milk of human kindness:
Macbeth Act 1.

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime.
Sonnet 3.

When a mother looks at her daughter she cannot help but reflect upon her own past, those days of wine and roses.

Household words:
The Green-Eyed Monster.
Othello Act 3

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Everything that grows holds in perfection but a little moment.

Sonnet 15

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The ripest fruit first falls.

King Richard 11, Act 2

Household Words.
Star-crossed lovers.
Romeo and Juliet, Prologue.

Hoodwinked.
All's Well That End' Well, Act 4

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"This above all:
to thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not
then be false to any man." or woman.

Hamlet, Act 1.

Household word:

"Dead as a doornail"
King Henry V1, Part 2, Act 4

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"Let me have no lying;
it becomes none but tradesmen."

The Winter's Tale, Act 4.

Lying and businessmen are inseparable.

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"To be honest as this world goes,
is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

Hamlet Act 2.

Household word:
"Good Riddance"

Troilus and Cressida" Act 2.

Shakespeare's timeless one liners for all time.
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"How poor are they
that have not patience.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees"

Othello Act 11.

Household words:
" The naked Truth "
" Loves Labor's Lost " Act V
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Shakespeare's timeless one-liners.

"Tempt not a desperate man."

Romeo and Juliet, Act V.

Desperation can turn even the most civilized man into a fearsome savage.

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"Do not give dalliance
Too much the rein."

The Tempest: Act 1V.

If you give your horse or dalliance ( flirting, toying, trifling etc;) too much rein, both will all too happily deliver
you to a destination of their choosing.

Household word:

"Bated Breath"

Merchant of Venice: Act 1.

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" Delays have dangerous ends."

King Henry V1, Part 1, Act 111.


Shakespeare lived only 52 years.
Produced 42 plays.
Not much of a procrastinator?

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" Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

Romeo and Juliet: Act 11.

Advance judiciously lest you spend the better part of your life picking yourself up.

Household words:
"Salad Days"
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1.

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"Saint - seducing gold."
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1.

Every one has a price. Even St. Francis.