William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 6

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

  William Shakespeare

  Poison, Sugar

  King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 2.

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• Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Pet, Welfare

  1608 Sicinius. Coriolanus, act 2, sc.1, l.6.

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Desire, Spirit

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

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• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

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• I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Pride, Men

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.236, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confused, Confusion, Emotion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Sin, Covetousness

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

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• Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

  William Shakespeare

  Essence, Intellectual, Literature

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• A light heart lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Love

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 15

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• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Shine Bright

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Life, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Cures

  William Shakespeare, Abraham Wivell (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakespere: with original introductions, & notes to each play; & a biographical sketch of his life”

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• Let every man be master of his time.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Waste, Wasting My Time

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• Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Sovereign, Opinion

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.271

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• True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Wings

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• I'll note you in my book of memory.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Notes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.66

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

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• He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Eating, Weary

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory Prefaces to Each Play ; Printed Complete from the Best Editions”

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