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Murder And Assassination Quotes (Shakespeare Quotes by Theme)

  1. A dish fit for the gods
  2. Et tu, Brute?
  3. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
  4. How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
  5. I go, and it is done; the bell invites me
  6. It smells to heaven
  7. More matter with less art
  8. Not that I lov'd Caesar less
  9. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
  10. O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
  11. One that loved not wisely but too well
  12. Out, damned spot
  13. Screw your courage to the sticking place
  14. So wise so young, they say do never live long
  15. The be-all and the end-all
  16. The play's the thing
  17. The serpent's egg
  18. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

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