William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 28

• Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Sparrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Hours, Late

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• Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Angel, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Evil

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

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• The sweat of industry would dry and die,
  But for the end it works to.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweat, Dry, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1872). “Shakespeare's tragedy of Cymbeline, with notes critical and explanatory by J. Hunter”, p.81

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Mirrors, Shadow

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.655

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• She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
  Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
  Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
  Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
  Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
  That I will speak to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Heaven

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Drunk, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Men, Trying

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• Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,
  And so shall starve with feeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Meat, Eating

  1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

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• one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Eye, Poison

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• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Wise

  'Richard III' (1591) act 3, sc. 1, l. 79

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• I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

  William Shakespeare

  Firsts, Taught, Should

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [439]

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• So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Thee, Wells, Wounds

  William Shakespeare (1807). “Macbeth: A Tragedy”, p.23

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• I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;
  but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Women, Grief

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

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• He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Watches, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [12]

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• Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Cups, Ingredients

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.38

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• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Being Happy, Real Friends

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

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• I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Empty Vessels, Voice

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.79

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• The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Taste, Juliet

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

  William Shakespeare

  Remember, Speak, Mortality

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”

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• The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

  William Shakespeare

  Thieves, Way, Stealing

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [61]

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• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

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