William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 34

• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Spring, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Mutiny

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Special, Earth

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.15-18.

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• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

  William Shakespeare

  Hopeless, Friendless, Alas

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.604

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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• Boldness be my friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Bravery, My Friends

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 1, sc. 6, l. 16

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• Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
  And manage it against despairing thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Lovers, Staff

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.94, Oxford University Press

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• In nature's infinite book of secrecy
  A little I can read.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Nature, Book

  1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

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• All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Deeds, Anarchy

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.597, Wordsworth Editions

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• And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Kissing, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.50

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• I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Learning, Dinner

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Feet

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.231

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• Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sleep, Eye

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• Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Hours, Pleasure

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Errors

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 107

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• Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Sight, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.244, Classic Books Company

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• Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Jewels, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• To this urn let those repair
  That are either true or fair;
  For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Bird, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.942

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• If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Work, Holiday

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]

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• We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Sugar, Too Much

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Hamlet”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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