William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 26

• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Drinking, Beer

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Apollo, Mercury

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [938]

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• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
  Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
  They are but beggars that can count their worth;
  But my true love is grown to such excess,
  I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceited, Substance, Matter

  "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

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• Blood will have blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Prologue

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.30, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

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• Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Opportunity, New Opportunity

  "The Plays of William Shakespeare".

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• Like madness, is the glory of this life.

  William Shakespeare

  Madness, Glory

  "The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes".

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• The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

  William Shakespeare

  Stupidity, May, Folly

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Evil, Soul

  1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act 4, sc.1, l.4-5.

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• Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Evil, Departure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• in black ink my love may still shine bright.

  William Shakespeare

  Shine Bright, Shining, Black

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

  William Shakespeare

  Wave, Ends, Minutes

  Sonnet 60

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• A young man married is a man that's marred.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Men

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Ambition

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Fall, Thrones

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Macbeth”, p.81, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Looks, Poor

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.519

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• This is the very ecstasy of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101

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• He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Brother, Ocean

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Knows

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, True Beauty, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Foolery

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• By being seldom seen, I could not stir
  But like a comet I was wondered at.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, Fame, Comets

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

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