William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 36

• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Glasses, Proud

  1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.308, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Moon, Rome

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 27

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• A sympathy in choice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Choices

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, Done

  1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.

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• Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Causes, Ends

  1606 Ross to S I ward. Macbeth, act 5, sc.11, l.10-12.

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• But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Loss, Thinking

  Sonnet 30

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• As love is full of unbefitting strains,
  All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
  Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
  Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
  Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
  To every varied object in his glance

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What a fool honesty is.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fool

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [608]

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• My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Romance, Enemy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

  William Shakespeare

  Swans, Rose, Together

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1704, Oxford University Press

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Dumb

  Sonnet 23

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• I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Trouble, Vicious

  William Shakespeare, Michael Neill (2008). “THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello: The Moor of Venice”, p.291, Oxford University Press

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• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Lying, Order

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• They love least that let men know their loves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friendship, Men

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.57, SIU Press

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• He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Soldier, Deceit

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.203, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Fairness, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

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• In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

  William Shakespeare

  Twilight, Sunset, Night

  Sonnet 73

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