William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 100

• Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Angel, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Spices, Shapes

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.577

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• Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Littles, Moments

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Serving God

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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• ...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sadness, Blood, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

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• Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Ass

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.138

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• In the night, imagining some fear,
  How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Bears

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Night, Four

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.117, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

  William Shakespeare

  Authority, Mark, Minnows

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 3, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Weight, Pay

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Be Patient, Authority

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.25

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• Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Bachelors, Score

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [209]

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• I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

  William Shakespeare

  Ballet, Cry, Kitten

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [128]

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• I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Ballads, Doleful

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors”, p.267

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• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Break Through, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Thinking, Pieces

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.318, A&C Black

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• Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanks, Poor, Dear Friend

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

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• Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Results, Ill

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.159, Classic Books Company

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• What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Animal, Larks

  1593 Petruccio to Kate.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 4, sc.3, l.173-6.

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• Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Suits, Action, Tutor

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Youth, Thee

  'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

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• Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Abhorrence

  William Shakespeare (1872). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions”, p.25

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