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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! -- Shakespeare, William | Absence Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Absence at Amazon.com Parting is such sweet sorrow. -- Shakespeare, William | Absence Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Absence at Amazon.com Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. -- Shakespeare, William | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. -- Shakespeare, William | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Be great in act, as you have been in thought. -- Shakespeare, William | Action Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly. -- Shakespeare, William | Action Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. -- Shakespeare, William | Action Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. -- Shakespeare, William | Action Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com Action is eloquence. -- Shakespeare, William | Action Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting. -- Shakespeare, William | Adolescence Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Adolescence at Amazon.com O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! -- Shakespeare, William | Adultery Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Adultery at Amazon.com Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- Shakespeare, William | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. -- Shakespeare, William | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. -- Shakespeare, William | Advice Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Advice at Amazon.com With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice] -- Shakespeare, William | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Shakespeare, William at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 401 Pages: 1 of 27 next  View all quotes