William Shakespeare on Names
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“When we were happy we had other names.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“The one so like the other As could not be distinguish'd but by names.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“I do beseech you— Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers— What is your name?”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words— * * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * * Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations