William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 146

• Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
  Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
  Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Husband

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

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• On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Bats

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Battle, Royal

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Let him smell his way to Dover!

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Dover, Way

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.799

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes”, p.403

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• Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Mind

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspere”, p.132

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• I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.725

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• Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

  William Shakespeare

  Paradise, Life Is, Knows

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• And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mischief, Millions

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.668

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• And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Villain

  William Shakespeare (1822). “The school-Shakspeare; or, Plays and scenes from Shakspeare illustr. for the use of schools, with glossarial notes selected from the best annotators by J.R. Pitman. [26 plays & extr. from 9 others & from the sonnets].”, p.293

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• Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ivory, Erotic

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

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• Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Wise, Art

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, Charles Whittingham (1830). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.125

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• Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Bitter, Rebuke

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Mr Theobald (Lewis) (1803). “Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it”

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• When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Firsts, Sin

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sith, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear”, p.11, Booklassic

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• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Tears, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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• For trust not him that hath once broken faith

  William Shakespeare

  Broken, Criminal Mind

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.80

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• Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.475

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• ...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Clouds, Riches

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important

  1595 Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.93-4.

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• By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Denmark In Hamlet, Ghost

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 84

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• Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

  William Shakespeare

  Care, Juliet, Tybalt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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