Favorite Quotations William Shakespeare, 4 Tales from Shakespeare

"Get thee to a nunnery." ~ William Shakespeare, HAMLET

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. ~ ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion. ~ KING LEAR

Our bodies are Gardens to which our wills are Gardeners. ~ OTHELLO

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ~ MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. ~ MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

How long a time lies in one little word! ~ RICHARD II

I have Immortal longings in me. ~ ANTONY & CLEOPATRA

Able to corrupt a saint. ~ HENRY IV

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie/Which we ascribe to heaven. ~ ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

The will is infinite and the execution confined. The desire is boundless and the act is a slave to limit. ~ TROILUS & CRESSIDA

Lord, what fools these mortals be! ~ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

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