William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 131

• Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Maggots

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61

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• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Fever, Emulation, Envious

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 129

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• Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Endurance, May

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

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• More can I bear than you dare execute.

  William Shakespeare

  Endurance, Bears, Dare

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 129

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• Our enemies are our outward consciences.

  William Shakespeare

  Enemy, Conscience

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• The error of our eye directs our mind.
  What error leads must err.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Errors, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1980, Oxford University Press

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• Allow not nature more than nature needs.

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, Excess, Lear

  William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

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• Haste is needful in a desperate case.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Desperate, Cases

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• Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Inconstancy

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.91

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• By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Water, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Richard III”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• The presence of a king engenders love
  Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Royal, Subjects

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Rowe (1820). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry V. King Henry VI, Parts I and II”, p.166

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• Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Kindness, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

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• Light and lust are deadly enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Lust, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lust, Excess

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1547, BookCaps Study Guides

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• As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Men, Village

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Melancholy, Frenzy

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

  William Shakespeare

  Government, Obedience, Knows

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.364

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• Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Discourse

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

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• What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
  And formless ruin of oblivion.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Ruins

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

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• You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Limits, Moderation

  William Shakespeare, Keir Elam (2008). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.171, A&C Black

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• The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Devil, Made

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• The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,
  Even in the moment that we call them ours.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Wish, Moments

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1843). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.440

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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Thoughtful, Talking, Going Away

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• All pride is willing pride.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Willing

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.184

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