William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 51

• Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fall, Simple

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.173, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Flesh and blood,
  You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
  Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
  Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
  Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
  Unnatural though thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Strong, Brother

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.18

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• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Rivers

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

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• Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Farewell, Forever

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 118

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
  Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Politics, Baffled

  1595 Mowbray to Richard. Richard II, act1, sc.1, l.170-1.

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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  William Shakespeare

  Elements, Matter, Return

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• She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
  She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
  Were man as rare as Phoenix.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Phoenix, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Hands, Voice

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.160, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, White, Hands

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.243

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• Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Use

  1604-5 Paroles to Helen. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.209-10.

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• Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Frost

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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• That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Foundation, Way

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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• There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

  William Shakespeare

  Comforting, Delight, Waste

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Dramatical Works: King Henry the Eighth”, p.79

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• 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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• Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
  So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Sex, Book

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.223

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• Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Fighting, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.461

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• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

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• Hold, or cut bowstrings.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Action

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• They say, the tongues of dying men
  Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
  Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
  For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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