William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 41

• Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Ems

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [133]

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• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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• No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Up Early, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Atheism, Ornaments

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
  And Nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

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• Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, June

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lasts, Taste

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Light, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Excellent

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

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• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  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.193

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• This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Air, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, House, Plot

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [41]

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• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Loving Friends, Appeals, Intellect

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• These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions

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• It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
  Sweet lovers love the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Bird

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Men, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Hands

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]

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• It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Faces, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.131, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Rain, Heart

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Speech, Language

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

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• Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Bragging, Ass, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Winter, Age

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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