William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 107

• Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

  William Shakespeare

  Bleeding, Made, Butchers

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.42

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• No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Fancy, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Glasses, Two

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

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• I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Faults, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Numbers, Guests

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.150

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• The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Pale, Gin

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 89

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• Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Soul, Ears

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

  William Shakespeare

  Guilt, Use, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.397

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• So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “As You Like it”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Larks, Hawks

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes”, p.67

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• A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Watches, May

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Joy

  Sonnet 8

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Knavery, Knaves

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 123

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• Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

  William Shakespeare

  Knavery, Faces, Used

  William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann (1996). “Othello: Third Series”, p.182, A&C Black

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• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Lilies, Fields

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.130

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• Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Tomorrow

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Eye, Men

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

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• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Bait

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Too Short, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.165

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• Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Husband, Smell

  1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

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• Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

  William Shakespeare

  Medicine, Heaven, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.501

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• Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Looks, Woe

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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