William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 141

• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  William Shakespeare

  Adders, Bright Days, Walking

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Night

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

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• For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [409]

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• O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Fall

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Anguish

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

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• The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Work, Delight

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• Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Care, Cures

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.19

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• When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Blue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

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• ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Our Actions, Madness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Fear, Silly

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 42

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• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Cain

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Historical, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

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• We are not the first
  Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Firsts, Worst

  William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Brotherhood, Our Love

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• He was not so much brain as earwax

  William Shakespeare

  Intellectual, Brain, Intelligence

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• He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Work, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]

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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Gold, Use

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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• Gold were as good as twenty orators.

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Twenties, Orators

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.148

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• Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Gold, Glorious

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

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• To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

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• Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Tenors

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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• Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Turtles, Twenties

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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