William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 120

• To you your father should be as a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Should, Theseus

  1595 Theseus to Hermia. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.47.

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• You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Let Me

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.8

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• As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Comfort

  Sonnet 37

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• Although the last, not least.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Lasts

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The plays of William Shakspeare: In twenty-one volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added notes”, p.312

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• From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memorable, Band

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• Small to greater matters must give way.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Giving, Matter

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.680

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• For Brutus is an honourable man;
  So are they all, all honourable men.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Brutus

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

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• He hath eaten me out of house and home.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, House

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Sight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Scene

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Judging, Causes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.498

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• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Names, Windsor

  1597-8 Mistress Page.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.2, l.16.

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• Their understanding
  Begins to swell and the approaching tide
  Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
  That now lie foul and muddy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Understanding

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... 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.63

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• For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Kissing, Ears

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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Faces, Painting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [150]

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• Fill all thy bones with aches.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Bones, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

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• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Giving

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• I pray thee cease thy counsel,
  Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Water

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.134

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• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
  To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Neglect

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32

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• If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Fiction, Stage

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [142]

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• I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die no soul will pity me:
  And wherefore should they, since that I myself
  Find in myself no pity to myself?

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press

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• Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Joy, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
  As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
  The worst of words.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.292

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• We have some salt of our youth in us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Salt, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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