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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

William Shakespeare
Love, Perfection, Able
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.587

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

William Shakespeare
Love, Curtains, Shows
William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heart, Iron
William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

My love's more richer than my tongue.

William Shakespeare
Love, Love You, Tongue
William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1825). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare: with glossarial notes, a sketch of his life, and an estimate of his writings”, p.290

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

William Shakespeare
Love, Marriage, Mean
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

William Shakespeare
Flower, Science, Sea
Sonnet 65

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Knaves
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.219

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Mind, Blunt
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1131, BookCaps Study Guides

Thou whoreson, senseless villain!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Villain
William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.272

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

William Shakespeare
Art, Sassy, Harlots
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “The Works of William Shakespeare: All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Comedy of errors. Winter's tale. King John”, p.186

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Ability, Infant
William Shakespeare (1685). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.35, Lulu.com

You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Orange, Wife
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.330

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Thinking, Scarce
William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.120, William Shakespeare

There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Males, Milk
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.6279, BookCaps Study Guides

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Blood, Poison
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.1753

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Long, Fool
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2985, Oxford University Press

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Spirit, Wit
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

Take you me for a sponge?

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Sponges
William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Simile
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [89]

'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Skins, Yards
1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Thee, Prunes
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.345

Hang him, swaggering rascal!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Rascals
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.408

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Companion, Scorn
William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (1989). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

Away, you mouldy rogue, away!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Rogues
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2. Henry V”, p.298

Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!

William Shakespeare
Wine, Sassy, Cutting
William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.260, Bloomsbury Publishing

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