William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 49

• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle;
  I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace"
  In an ungracious mouth is but profane.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Grace, Mouths

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.64

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• To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Art, Moving

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• Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Honesty, Winning

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• Tremble, thou wretch,
  That hast within thee undivulged crimes
  Unwhipped of justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Crime, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter”, p.72

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• The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiving, Malice, Pow

  "Cymbeline".

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• I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Noble

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.306, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Monsters, Lions

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• The curse of marriage
  That we can call these delicate creatures ours
  And not their appetites!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Vapor, Adultery

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• The color of the king doth come and go,
  Between his purpose and his conscience,
  Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
  His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Passion, Color

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

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• The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Innocence, Mines

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie (1807). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.239

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• Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Stupidity, Age

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.3, l.57.

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• It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Teeth, Sickness

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.384

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• This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Raises, Hog

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Merchant of Venice”, p.52

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• What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Made, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors”, p.123

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• No man's pie is freed
  From his ambitious finger.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Pie

  William Shakespeare (1808). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.202

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• Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Modesty

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1837). “Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.128

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• But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.

  William Shakespeare

  Humorous, Sadness, Rumination

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.211, Classic Books Company

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• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Fire, Vanity

  1595 John of Gaunt, to Richard. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.31-4.

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• Your praises will become your wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Wages, Praise

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Monsters, Ingrates, Being Me

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Genius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, March, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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