William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 54

• If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Shylock, Bears

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Someone

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• Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Color, Needs

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• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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• Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Sea, Land

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.267

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

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• Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Poor wretches that depend
  On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
  Wake, and find nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Greatness, Done

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.78

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Philosophical, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells, Hasty

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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• Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Whales, Camels

  'hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [400]

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• Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings And Love, Lear, Regard

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.328

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• Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Saint, May

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 127

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• It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Men, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.642

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• He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Valor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• That which I would discover
  The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Law

  William Shakespeare, afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard) (1854). “The Comedies of William Shakespeare: Edited with Introductions and Notes ... by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the American Edition”, p.59

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• There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakup, Flames, Snuff

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.252, Nelson Thornes

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• Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, Ethics, Persons

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

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• Can we outrun the heavens?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Outrun

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• You are my true and honourable wife;
  As dear to me as the ruddy drops
  That visit my sad heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Heart, Wife

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Dreams are the children of idled minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Mind

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