William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 44

• A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Laughing

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Defeat, Desdemona

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 159

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• But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Perfection, Absolutes

  William Shakespeare (1856). “The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes”, p.99

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• Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fate, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

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• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Light, Sky

  "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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• Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Honey, Dew

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

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• Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
  So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Two, Lovely

  William Shakespeare (1796). “The Plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.30

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• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Mistress

  Sonnet 130

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• Death-counterfeiting sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1611

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• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  William Shakespeare

  Brutus, Brutes, Treachery

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• We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Masters

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Othello: Third Series”, p.118, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Pain, Men

  1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.

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• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Coward, Bed

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Excess, Gains

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.250, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• we are the lords of all eternity

  William Shakespeare

  Eternity, Lord

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• A hit, a very palpable hit.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [295]

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• Would the cook were o' my mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Cooks, Cookery

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1452, Oxford University Press

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• There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Bravery, World

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.293

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• I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
  Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
  Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,
  Intending deep suspicion.

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Looks, Sides

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sports, Beach

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

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• There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Rotten

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• There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Rogues, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, KING RICHARD II. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.. VOLUME the FIFTH”, p.143

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• A man I am cross'd with adversity.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Men, Crosses

  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.159

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• Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Mad, Reason

  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.419

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