Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare on Anniversary
1564–1616 England
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Sonnets (1609)
'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
Measure for Measure (1603)
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.
She is not well married that lives married long:
But she's best married that dies married young.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Should all despair
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
Would hang themselves.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
* * * few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.
O ye gods,
Render me worthy of this noble wife!
Julius Cæsar (1599)
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
Richard II (1595)
What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
King Lear (1608)
If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
Attribution
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