William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 3

• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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• Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Fire, Sap

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.25

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• I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Wish

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191

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• a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Hate, Boys

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• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Memorable, Should

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• I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom (2007). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• There's a time for all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, All Things

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1073, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A good heart 'is worth gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Gold, Good Heart

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• Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Income, Pay

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.262, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Fool

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• And nothing is, but what is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Ideas

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• Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Judging, Heaven

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 99

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• Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Time, Past

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Struggle, Fortitude

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.490, Classic Books Company

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• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• Desperate times breed desperate measures

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate Measures, Problem, Desperate Times

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• In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Dear Lord, Honour

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 150

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• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicidal, Silliness, Torment

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Bags, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1969). “Coriolanus”, p.172, CUP Archive

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