William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 33

• Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Balance, Self Improvement

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Teaching, Dull

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• Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Evil, Darkness

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• Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

  William Shakespeare

  Glory

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• Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Choices, Sorrow, Library

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34

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• Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Substance, Deceived

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.69, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Charity

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [14]

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• As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, May, Months

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.298

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• A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sea

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Waiting

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

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• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

  William Shakespeare

  Infidelity, Hips, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (1869). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.90

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, World, Excitement

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.113, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Decay, Woe

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 103

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• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Best Kiss

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 172

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• No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Degrees, Pairs

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed ; in Two Volumes”, p.267

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• The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Equality

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Gentleman, Ironic

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [148]

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• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Atoms, Ease

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

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• And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Devil, Saint

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• The love of wicked men converts to fear;
  That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
  To worthy danger and deserved death.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hate, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

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