William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 12

• Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Few Words, Written Language

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [40]

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• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

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• Get thee to a nunnery.

  William Shakespeare

  Thee

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• The cheek
  Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

  William Shakespeare

  Errands, Tongue, Countenance

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1363, Oxford University Press

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• I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Sigh

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler, Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakspeare: In One Volume : in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.210

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• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Memorable, Loss

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

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• Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Guests, Hospitality

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 2, sc. 2, l. 55

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• Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Beautiful Women

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.210

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

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• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, I Miss You, Good Night

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Force, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1831). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play”, p.245

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• Exit, pursued by a bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Exit, Surrealism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 3, stage direction

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• And either victory, or else a grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.146

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• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Hypocrisy, Sinner

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 3, sc. 3, l. 31

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• Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Passion, Finest

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.643

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• What is done cannot be now amended.

  William Shakespeare

  Done

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.590

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• I have more care to stay than will to go.

  William Shakespeare

  Caring, Care, Want

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 23

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• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ears, Prosperity

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• Men's vows are women's traitors

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Vow

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.235

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• It is a sin to be a mocker.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Burlesque

  William Shakespeare (1750). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.11

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• The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Jurisprudence, Innocence

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

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• Foul whisperings are abroad

  William Shakespeare

  Whispering, Foul

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

  William Shakespeare

  Support, Charity, Helping

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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