William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 59

• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• What e'er you are
  That in this desert inaccessible,
  Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
  Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Desert, Shade

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

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• Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Captains, Fool

  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.149

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• Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [76]

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Sight

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• We should hold day with the Antipodes,
  If you would walk in absence of the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Sun, Absence

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage”, p.145

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• Beauty, wit,
  High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
  Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
  To envious and calumniating time.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Desert

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Worst

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
  And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Youth, Brows

  Sonnet 60

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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• For conspiracy,
  I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
  For me to try how.

  William Shakespeare

  Trying, Politics, Taste

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1986). “Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for Performance and Analysis”, p.65, SIU Press

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Courage

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Bidding, Countenance

  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.1739, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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• He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Play

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

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• Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Night, Long

  1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

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• Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
  My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
  My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
  And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
  Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 3

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• Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
  And every godfather can give a name.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Names, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.345

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• Faith, I have been a truant in the law
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Has Beens

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 2, sc.4, l.7-9.

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
  For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
  Must kiss their own feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Kissing, Journey

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.267

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• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

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