William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 53

• He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Doe, Natural

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [91]

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• Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sin, Vocation

  Ray Leslee, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Welsh (1998). “Standup Shakespeare”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Dull, Forgotten

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.296

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• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

  William Shakespeare

  Mountain, Caves, Fit

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Like one
  Who having into truth, by telling of it,
  Made such a sinner of his memory,
  To credit his own lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Lying, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Tempest”, p.27, Palgrave Macmillan

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• We have seen better days.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Memorable, Past

  'Timon Of Athens' act 4, sc. 2, l. 27

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• Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lips, Eternity

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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• So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​

  William Shakespeare

  Confusion, Midsummer, Spleen

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Physicians, Silliness

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

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• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Memorable, Thieves

  1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

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• When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Men

  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.116

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Health, Garden

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]

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• Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Way

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

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• I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Soul, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1853). “The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.48

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• Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Play, Justice

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• The seasons change their manners, as the year
  Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Weather, Months

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
  been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Dancer, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Events

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [377]

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