William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 103

• Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Doe, Hue

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Devil, Monsters

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1095, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Tasks

  William Shakespeare, Herbert Weil, Judith Weil (2007). “The First Part of King Henry IV”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ears, Flattery

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.132

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• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

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• 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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• Love`s reason`s without reason

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Reason

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.116

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• To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)”, p.150, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Dark, Light

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.28

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• Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

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• Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Eggs, Meat, Quarrels

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.133

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• Report me and my cause aright.

  William Shakespeare

  Media, Causes, Reports

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [353]

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• The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

  William Shakespeare

  Elephants, Legs, Joints

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Soul

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.468, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Littles, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.30, Callisto Media Inc

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

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• I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Thinking, Reason

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 23

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Firsts, Witch

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.86

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• There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Men, Taught

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Teaching, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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