William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 140

• You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Sassy, Malt

  William Shakespeare (2003). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Dignity, Fingers

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
  thou learn a prayer without book.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Prayer, Book

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• A fusty nut with no kernel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Nuts, Kernel

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.724, Wordsworth Editions

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• Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Sassy, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1960, Oxford University Press

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• The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Past

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• This England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Feet

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Noble

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Though inclination be as sharp as will,
  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
  And, like a man to double business bound,
  I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
  And both neglect.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Business, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Great Love, Heaven

  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.30

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• It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Hanmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.9

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• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Memorable, Good Man

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Order, Mind

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• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Smell, Ancient

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Farewell, Memorable

  Sonnet 87

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• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Memorable, Bones

  Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, Soul

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• These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceited, Men, Common

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [42]

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• I'll teach you differences.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Science, Differences

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.892, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Son, Men

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Light

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

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• Words to deeds cold breath gives.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Deeds, Cold

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Age

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

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