William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 46

• When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

  William Shakespeare

  Holy, Fray, Devilish

  William Shakespeare (1962). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.35, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Insects, Moths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.176

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• Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Light, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Good luck lies in odd numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Horse, Adages

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• Faults that are rich are fair.

  William Shakespeare

  Faults, Rich, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.489

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• Making night hideous.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Hideous

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• Nor age so eat up my invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Invention

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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• To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Angry

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..”, p.1101

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• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Apparitions, I Can

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension.

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure, Apprehension

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak, Bondage

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Chastity, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.35

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• How much an ill word may empoison liking!

  William Shakespeare

  Gossip, May, Slander

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Midsummer, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
  Begin it with weak straws.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Haste, Weak

  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.27

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• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

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• Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Scythes, Defence

  William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.36

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• Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Woe, Poor

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

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• A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  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.1320

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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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• There is nothing serious in Mortality

  William Shakespeare

  Serious, Mortality

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• All that glitters is not gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter

  David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

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• While we lie tumbling in the hay.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Hay

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Patch grief with proverbs.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Patches

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

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