William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 133

• Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Like Her, Praise

  1598 Benedick, of Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.166-7.

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• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Knives, May

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

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• LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

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  Kings, Heart, Dukes

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1480, Oxford University Press

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• Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)

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  Sweet, Thee, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Much Ado About Nothing: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.78, Prestwick House Inc

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• A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

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  Heart, Good Day, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

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• You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

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  Alchemist, Gold, Alchemy

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.214, Palgrave Macmillan

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• That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

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  Silent, Should

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Messengers, Turns

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2647, BookBaby

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• Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Desert

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.64, Hackett Publishing

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• Now my charms are all o'erthrown.

  William Shakespeare

  Charm

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, epilogue, l.1-2.

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• Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

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  Blood, Sound, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.43

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

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  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

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• It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Giving, Tongue

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• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Sound, Cracks, Flaws

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 413

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• Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

  William Shakespeare

  Iron, Age, Comfort

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.461, A&C Black

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• Come, Lady, die to live.

  William Shakespeare

  Dies

  William Shakespeare (1765). “The Plays: Of William Shakespeare, in Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson”, p.244

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• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Owl, Bells

  William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

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• Who is it that can tell me who I am?

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Who I Am

  William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

  William Shakespeare

  Lord, Excellent, Wells

  "Arden Shakespeare Complete Works".

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• Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Noses, Messengers

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.253, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

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  Love, Voice, Heaven

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

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