William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 62

• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Mind, Opal

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• Haply a woman's voice may do some good
  When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Agreement, Voice

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Henry V”, p.152, Booklassic

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• A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
  ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,
  forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Wine, Imagination

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

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• I would not lose so great an honor
  As one man more methinks would share with me
  For the best hope I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  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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• Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
  die.

  William Shakespeare

  Mortality, Certain, Dies

  1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Deceit, World

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Dream, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Uncles, Eye

  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.138

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• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
  Pass'd over to the end they were created,
  Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
  Ah, what a life were this!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Years, White Hair

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.476

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
  Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
  Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
  Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Flower, Use

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• Reason thus with life:
  If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
  That none but fools would keep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fool, Reason

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, True Friend, Real

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

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• To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.335

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Scar, Self Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

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• Plutus himself,
  That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
  Hath not in nature's mystery more science
  Than I have in this ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science, Medicine

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• We were not born to sue, but to command.

  William Shakespeare

  Negotiation, Born, Command

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 196

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• You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Heart, Thankfulness

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1049, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
  And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
  And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Brotherhood, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1548, Oxford University Press

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• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Climbing

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

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• A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Summer Nights, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [32]

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• Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Excellence, Earth

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Imitation

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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