William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 139

• We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Curtains, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
  But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
  Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
  And I shall have no power to follow you.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Iron

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• My love's more richer than my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1825). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare: with glossarial notes, a sketch of his life, and an estimate of his writings”, p.290

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
  But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
  Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Science, Sea

  Sonnet 65

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• Who are the violets now
  That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Violet

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

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• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Purple

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• He wears the rose
  Of youth upon him.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Flower, Rose

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
  For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Air

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• And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, Drink, Felony

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Beer, Blessing

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

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• Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

  William Shakespeare

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Joyful

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• My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Emotional, Crowns

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.138

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• O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knowing, May

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [19]

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• Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Another Day, Revolution

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.420

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• Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Flower, Fall

  1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.

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• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vanity, Glasses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pieces, Cheese

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

  William Shakespeare

  Fun, Argument, Staples

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [18]

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