William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 122

• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Night

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

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• For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [409]

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• O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Fall

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

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• One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Anguish

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

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• Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Idols, Mad

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291

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• To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Skills, Ends

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [108]

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• Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Hours, Advantage

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.577

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• We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Weed, Lying

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Delight, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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• I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Lions, Claws

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1351

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• O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart, Tigers

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 4, l. 137

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• He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.184, Palgrave Macmillan

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• My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hurt, Hands

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 1, l. [190]

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• He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [12]

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• Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Knives, Privilege

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Believe, Men

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

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• Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Belief, Secrecy

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [113]

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• Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, House, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Twenties, Trouble

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.177, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Taming, Wenches

  1593 Katherine.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 5, sc.2, l.185.

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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