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O that I were a mockery king of snow
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself away in water drops! — William Shakespeare

The gods are fair, and they use our little vices to punish us — William Shakespeare

O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself — William Shakespeare

You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? — William Shakespeare

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. — William Shakespeare

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving ... — William Francis Henry King

The taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. — William Francis Henry King

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. — William Congreve

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man! — William Shakespeare

LEAR: ... yet you see how this world goes.
GLOS.: I see it feelingly. — William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. — William Shakespeare

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. — William H. Macy

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance. — William Shakespeare

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. — William Shakespeare

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.-King Claudius — William Shakespeare

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare

So young, my lord, and true. — William Shakespeare

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court. — William Shakespeare

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. — William Shakespeare

I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. — William Shakespeare

Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21) — William Shakespeare

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? — William Shakespeare

KING CLAUDIUS
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAMLET
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. — William Shakespeare

Love? His affections do not that way tend — William Shakespeare

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king. — William Wallace

Oh winter, king of fire side enjoyments, home born happiness. — William Cowper

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
nor can it be denied the community,
even against the king himself. — William Barclay

Usury once in control will wreck the nation. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

To be a naturalist is better than to be a king. — William Beebe

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of. — William Shakespeare

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The new doctors all agreed on various tried-and-true medications, and within forty-eight hours of their coming on the case, the King was dead. — William Goldman

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;
The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
And all his pictures faded. — William Blake

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space. — William Shakespeare

And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king. — William Shakespeare

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king? — William Shakespeare

Long are the lives of elves' he said.

Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard. — William King

KING RICHARD III:
I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. — William Shakespeare

I am even
The natural fool of fortune. — William Shakespeare

I hope they will not come upon us now.
King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs. — William Shakespeare

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. — William Blackstone

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less. — William Shakespeare

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

I had forgot myself. Am I not king?
Awake, thou coward Majesty, thou sleepest!
Is not the king's name twenty thousand names? — William Shakespeare

With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? — William Shakespeare

Every hour of useful work is precious. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. — William Shakespeare

Time is the king of men. — William Shakespeare

If you be King, why should not I succeed? — William Shakespeare

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

A king of infinite space — William Shakespeare

The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. — William Shakespeare

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.' — William Makepeace Thackeray

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France — William Shakespeare

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! — William Shakespeare

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. — William Thomas Stead

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by. — William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King! — William Shakespeare

The curious hunter-up of rare quotations ... the young and struggling scribbler ... — William Francis Henry King

O King, be loyal to the royal within you. — William Shakespeare

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler. — William Doyle

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

God and His Priest and King, ... make up a heaven of our misery. — William Blake

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare

Besides, our nearness to the King in love
Is near the hate of those love not the King. — William Shakespeare

In an insane world a sane man must appear insane. — C. William King

Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King. — William T. Vollmann

KING HENRY VI:
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe? — William Shakespeare

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare

If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do — Stephen King

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. — William Shakespeare

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. — William Shakespeare

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends. — William Shakespeare

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd. — William Shakespeare

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter. — William Shakespeare

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. — William Shakespeare

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death. — William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength. — William Shakespeare

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine. — William Goldman

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king. — William Shakespeare