William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 113

• I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Daggers

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]

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• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Hair, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Action, Juliet

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Courtship, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The world must be peopled!

  William Shakespeare

  World

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

  William Shakespeare

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• Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

  William Shakespeare

  Pigs

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• It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Weight

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Madness, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.300, Classic Books Company

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• thou art the best o' the cut-throats

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cutting, Throat

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Taken, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

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• Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

  William Shakespeare

  Vines, Mirth, Toys

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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• Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Done, Bright Days

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

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• What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Dear, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, North Star, Terrible

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [584]

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• Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Earth, Reign

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Hands, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

  William Shakespeare

  Falling In Love, Fall, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.123

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• I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, World

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [271]

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• Sycorax has grown into a hoop

  William Shakespeare

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• O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

  William Shakespeare

  Dogs Of War, Pieces, Earth

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 254

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