m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.	William Shakespeare	[ "love" ]
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.	William Shakespeare	[ "good" ]
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.	William Shakespeare	[ "god", "intelligence", "knowledge" ]
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.	William Shakespeare	[ "faith", "god" ]
Men's vows are women's traitors!	William Shakespeare	[ "men", "women" ]
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.	William Shakespeare	[ "men" ]
They do not love that do not show their love.	William Shakespeare	[ "love" ]
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.	William Shakespeare	[ "death" ]
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.	William Shakespeare	[ "art" ]
The course of true love never did run smooth.	William Shakespeare	[ "love" ]
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.	William Shakespeare	[ "sad" ]
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.	William Shakespeare	[ "good", "men" ]
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.	William Shakespeare	[ "good", "romantic" ]
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.	William Shakespeare	[ "good" ]
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!	William Shakespeare	[ "god" ]
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.	William Shakespeare	[ "time" ]
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.	William Shakespeare	[ "great", "men", "nature" ]
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!	William Shakespeare	[ "men" ]
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.	William Shakespeare	[ "men", "strength", "women" ]
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.	William Shakespeare	[ "men" ]
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.	William Shakespeare	[ "faith", "great", "men" ]
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.	William Shakespeare	[ "time" ]
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.	William Shakespeare	[ "future" ]
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.	William Shakespeare	[ "good" ]
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.	William Shakespeare	[ "men", "time", "women" ]
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.	William Shakespeare	[ "great" ]
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.	William Shakespeare	[ "peace" ]
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?	William Shakespeare	[ "patience" ]
I love technology.	William Shatner	[ "technology" ]
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.	William Shatner	[ "work" ]
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.	William Shatner	[ "marriage" ]
My dad was good with actions.	William Shatner	[ "dad" ]
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.	William Shatner	[ "change" ]
My dad died of a stroke.	William Shatner	[ "dad" ]
You need to be silly to be funny.	William Shatner	[ "funny" ]
Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.	William Shatner	[ "best" ]
Well-written words are music.	William Shatner	[ "music" ]
Death is an absolute marvel.	William Shatner	[ "death" ]
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?	William Shatner	[ "marriage" ]
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!	William Shatner	[ "money" ]
Divorce is probably as painful as death.	William Shatner	[ "death" ]
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.	William Shatner	[ "truth" ]
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.	William Shatner	[ "business" ]
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.	William Shatner	[ "business" ]
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.	William Shatner	[ "sad" ]
Nature is perfect.	William Shatner	[ "nature" ]
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.	William Shatner	[ "science" ]
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.	William Shatner	[ "health" ]
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.	William Shatner	[ "nature" ]
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.	William Shatner	[ "death", "home" ]
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.	William Shatner	[ "art" ]
I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.	William Shatner	[ "change" ]
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.	William Shatner	[ "success" ]
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.	William Shatner	[ "dreams" ]
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.	William Shatner	[ "family" ]
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.	William Shatner	[ "computers" ]
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.	William Shenstone	[ "hope" ]
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.	William Shenstone	[ "knowledge" ]
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.	William Shenstone	[ "poetry" ]
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.	William Shenstone	[ "friendship", "intelligence" ]
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.	William Shenstone	[ "anger" ]
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.	William Shenstone	[ "beauty" ]
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.	William Shenstone	[ "truth" ]
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.	William Shenstone	[ "strength" ]
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.	William Shenstone	[ "alone" ]
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.	William Shenstone	[ "poetry" ]
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.	William Shenstone	[ "fear", "jealousy" ]
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.	William Shenstone	[ "patriotism" ]
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.	William Shirley	[ "alone" ]
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.	William Styron	[ "experience" ]
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.	William Styron	[ "best" ]
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
War is at its best barbarism.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
War is hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "courage" ]
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "peace", "war" ]
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "truth" ]
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "peace" ]
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "politics" ]
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "fear", "wisdom" ]
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "fear" ]
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "peace", "war" ]
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "change" ]
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "war" ]
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.	William Tecumseh Sherman	[ "christmas" ]
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.	William Trevor	[ "imagination" ]
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.	William Tyndale	[ "alone" ]
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.	William Tyndale	[ "easter" ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare

[ "love" ]

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

[ "good" ]

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

[ "god", "intelligence", "knowledge" ]

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

William Shakespeare

[ "faith", "god" ]

Men's vows are women's traitors!

William Shakespeare

[ "men", "women" ]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare

[ "men" ]

They do not love that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare

[ "love" ]

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

[ "death" ]

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare

[ "art" ]

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

[ "love" ]

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare

[ "sad" ]

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

[ "good", "men" ]

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

[ "good", "romantic" ]

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

[ "good" ]

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

William Shakespeare

[ "god" ]

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare

[ "time" ]

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

[ "great", "men", "nature" ]

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

[ "men" ]

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

William Shakespeare

[ "men", "strength", "women" ]

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

[ "men" ]

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

[ "faith", "great", "men" ]

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

[ "time" ]

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

[ "future" ]

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

[ "good" ]

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

[ "men", "time", "women" ]

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

[ "great" ]

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare

[ "peace" ]

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

[ "patience" ]

I love technology.

William Shatner

[ "technology" ]

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

[ "work" ]

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William Shatner

[ "marriage" ]

My dad was good with actions.

William Shatner

[ "dad" ]

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

William Shatner

[ "change" ]

My dad died of a stroke.

William Shatner

[ "dad" ]

You need to be silly to be funny.

William Shatner

[ "funny" ]

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

William Shatner

[ "best" ]

Well-written words are music.

William Shatner

[ "music" ]

Death is an absolute marvel.

William Shatner

[ "death" ]

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William Shatner

[ "marriage" ]

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

William Shatner

[ "money" ]

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

William Shatner

[ "death" ]

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

William Shatner

[ "truth" ]

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

William Shatner

[ "business" ]

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

William Shatner

[ "business" ]

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

William Shatner

[ "sad" ]

Nature is perfect.

William Shatner

[ "nature" ]

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

William Shatner

[ "science" ]

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

William Shatner

[ "health" ]

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

William Shatner

[ "nature" ]

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

William Shatner

[ "death", "home" ]

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

[ "art" ]

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

William Shatner

[ "change" ]

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William Shatner

[ "success" ]

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

William Shatner

[ "dreams" ]

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

William Shatner

[ "family" ]

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

William Shatner

[ "computers" ]

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

[ "hope" ]

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

[ "knowledge" ]

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

[ "poetry" ]

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

William Shenstone

[ "friendship", "intelligence" ]

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

William Shenstone

[ "anger" ]

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William Shenstone

[ "beauty" ]

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

[ "truth" ]

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

[ "strength" ]

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

William Shenstone

[ "alone" ]

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

[ "poetry" ]

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

[ "fear", "jealousy" ]

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

William Shenstone

[ "patriotism" ]

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Shirley

[ "alone" ]

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron

[ "experience" ]

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

William Styron

[ "best" ]

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "courage" ]

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "peace", "war" ]

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "truth" ]

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "peace" ]

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "politics" ]

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "fear", "wisdom" ]

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "fear" ]

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "peace", "war" ]

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "change" ]

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "war" ]

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

William Tecumseh Sherman

[ "christmas" ]

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

[ "imagination" ]

My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

William Tyndale

[ "alone" ]

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

William Tyndale

[ "easter" ]