William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 56

• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Soul, Tears

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• God send everyone their heart's desire!

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Teenager, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.189, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Sea, Floating

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• Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Proud, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153

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• Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Grace

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 87

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• Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1823). “Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus”, p.119

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• Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Weather, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Power, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

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• More matter with less art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95

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• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Scum, Way

  1597-8 King Henry to Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.254-5.

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• Speak comfortable words.

  William Shakespeare

  Communication, Speak, Comfortable

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.282, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Gold

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Faces, Barbers

  1595 Bottom. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc.1, l.23-6.

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• Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Miracle, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings, Bird, Trembling

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.685, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Oh what fools we mortals are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Mortals

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• I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Battle, Argument

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [149]

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• for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Littles, Way

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.262, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Future, Fate

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• Set we forward; let
  A Roman and a British ensign wave
  Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
  And in the temple of the great Jupiter
  Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
  Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
  Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Book, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet”, p.350

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• I dote on his very absence.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Absence

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [117]

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