This document contains 9 short quotes from various Shakespeare plays, including Hamlet, As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear. The quotes discuss themes of perception, brevity, unkindness spoiling gifts, sorrows coming in battalions not single spies, looking at happiness through another's eyes, the fool thinking they are wise but the wise knowing they are a fool, perfume not sweetening a hand, an unthankful child's tooth being sharper than a serpent's, and men of few words being the best men.

1. "There is nothing either good or
bad, but thinking makes it so“.
(Act II, Scene II) Hamlet.

2. "Brevity is the soul of wit“.
(Act II, Scene II) Hamlet.

3. “Rich gifts wax poor
when givers prove unkind".
(Act III, Scene I)Hamlet.

4. "When sorrows come,
they come not single spies,
but in battalions".
(Act IV, Scene V) Hamlet

5. "How bitter a thing it is to
look into happiness
through another man's eyes!”
(Act V, Scene II) As You Like It.

6. "The fool doth think he is
wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a
fool". (Act V, Scene I)As
You Like It.

7. "All the perfumes of Arabia
will not sweeten this little hand."
(Act V, Scene I) Macbeth.

8. "How sharper than a serpent's
tooth it is to have
a thankless child!“
(Act I, Scene IV)King Lear.

9. "Men of few words
are the best men“
(Act III, Scene II)
King Henry the Fifth
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