William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 128

• Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Fancy

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298

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• To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Moving, Agony

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1633, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Desire, Sanctuary

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Motive, Courses

  William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

  William Shakespeare

  Denmark In Hamlet, Tongue, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [625]

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• If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Needs, News

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.76, Palgrave Macmillan

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• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Oysters, May, Fool

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

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• Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Grief, Men

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Profound, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147

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• Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Son, Patriotism

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

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• Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Ink, Matter

  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.232

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• I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Pride, Boys

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

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• O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Pride

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• There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, May

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

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• The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

  William Shakespeare

  Heat, Quarrels, Sharpness

  William Shakespeare (2011). “King Lear Thrift Study Edition”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Relaxation, Lag, Quiet

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 23

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• Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

  William Shakespeare

  Horror, Abandon, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

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• The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1999). “The Narrative Poems”, p.88, Penguin

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• No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

  William Shakespeare

  Scandal, Particular

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• Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Long, Bird

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 157

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• Two may keep counsel putting one away!

  William Shakespeare

  Two, May, Secrecy

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O shame, where is thy blush?

  William Shakespeare

  Shame

  William Shakespeare (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Boards, Ships

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [22]

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