William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 139

• The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Thrones, Barges

  William Shakespeare (1750). “The Works: Of Shakespear in Nine Volumes. With a Glossary. Carefully Printed from the Oxford Edition in Quarto, 1744”, p.268

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• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Pace, You Like It

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Justice, Trying

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.114

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• The time is out of joint.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Joints

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 188

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• Time, that takes survey of all the world,
  Must have a stop.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, World, Surveys

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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• O, the blood more stirs
  To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Blood, Lions

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 197

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• What if this cursed hand
  Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
  To wash it white as snow?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Brother

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• At once, good night-
  Stand not upon the order of your going,
  But go at once.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Order

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 119

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• Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
  His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
  The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
  The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
  And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

  William Shakespeare

  I Love You, True Love, Wedding

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• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Too Much, Fame

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
  Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
  Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
  But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Knowledge, Fate

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

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• Why, what should be the fear?
  I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

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• And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.423, Classic Books Company

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• O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
  To spend that shortness basely were too long,
  If life did ride upon a dial's point,
  Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Gentleman

  1596-7 Hotspur. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.81-4.

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• The sands are number'd that make up my life;
  Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Numbers, Sand

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.501

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• This day I breathed first: time is come round,
  And where I did begin there shall I end;
  My life is run his compass.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23

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• Leave us to our free election.

  William Shakespeare

  4th Of July, Election, Free Elections

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Pericles”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• We cannot all be masters.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Acceptance, Masters

  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.230

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• Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Philosophy, Adversity

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

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• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Clothes, Vices

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep thy friend
  Under thy own life's key.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Keys

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.228

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• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real, Bears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

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• The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Ties, Together

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes”, p.377

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