William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 11

• She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 5, sc. 3, l. 78.

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• The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Frost, November

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Enforcement, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.237

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• A very honest woman but something given to lie

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Lying, Honest Woman

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Patient, Broads

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary. Index. List of the various readings”, p.50

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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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• My grief lies all within,
  And these external manners of lament
  Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
  That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Silence

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fashion, War

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

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• I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Ennui

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Harvey, William Shakespeare (1831). “Tales from Shakspeare: designed for the use of young persons”, p.194

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• Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Coward, Use

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 310

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• Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Leisure

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.788

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• Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

  William Shakespeare

  Law

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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• Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Hate, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.186, Springer

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• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness

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• Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Destiny, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Nerissa.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.81-2.

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• My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

  William Shakespeare

  Honest, Poor, My Friends

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.758, Wordsworth Editions

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• Though she be but little, she is fierce!

  William Shakespeare

  Tattoo, Fitness, Zebras

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.704, Oxford University Press

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• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Adversity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1808). “Coriolanus; Or The Roman Matron. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. London, Longman 1808. 68,89,71,75 S., 4 Tf”, p.48

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• Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eternity, Lackeys

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