William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 6

• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Heart, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 82

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Heart, Grieving

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

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• Grief makes one hour ten.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

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• A light heart lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Love

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 15

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• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

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• All difficulties are easy when they are known.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Easy, Difficulty

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Desire, Spirit

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

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• Let every man be master of his time.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Judging

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• Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Confession, Compost

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare ...”

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• A flock of blessings light upon thy back

  William Shakespeare

  Life And Love, Blessing, Light

  William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.150, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

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• Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Waste, Argument

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Matter

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 3, l. [109]

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• A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Cures

  William Shakespeare, Abraham Wivell (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakespere: with original introductions, & notes to each play; & a biographical sketch of his life”

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• Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Love Is, Lovers

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• Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Grace, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.117

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• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Shine Bright

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

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• Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Debt, Deeds

  1602 Pandarus toTroilus.Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc.2, l.54.

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• I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Waste, Wasting My Time

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