William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 23

• Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Crowns, World

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

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• I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Wish, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.80, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Temptation, Sin

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 180

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• Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Despair, Should

  1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

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• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Measure For Measure, Tempted

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

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• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Kings, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 456

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• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Night, Clown

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

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• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Age, Weakness

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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• Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Agony, Soul

  1594-5 Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.843.

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• All offences come from the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Offence

  William Shakespeare (1766). “The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609”, p.60

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• Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Freedom, Soul

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Smell, Lilies

  Sonnet 94

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• Educated men are so impressive.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Men, Impressive

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• I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Hate, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [78]

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• When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Thinking, Married

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

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

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Important Macbeth, Brows

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

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• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I do oppose
  My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
  To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
  The very tyranny and rage of his.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Suffering, Arms

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

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• All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

  William Shakespeare

  I Miss You, Missing You, Dream

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 43.

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• Ingratitude is monstrous.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Monstrous

  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.182

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Memorable, Dignity

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380

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