William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 64

• When I waked, I cried to dream again

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Tempest, Caliban

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Rome, Sloth, Cardinals

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.146, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Humanity

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 1, l. 31

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• It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Desire, Pounds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.308, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

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• I would fain die a dry death.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Dry, Dies

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Promise, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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• Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Chastity, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.35

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• Experience teacheth us
  That resolution 's a sole help at need:
  And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
  That we be bold in every enterprise:
  Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
  Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Victory, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Self, Sin

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• Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc.3, l.23-4.

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• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Tears, Venus

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

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• Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Tears

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.306, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The weakest goes to the wall.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Weakness, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

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• A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

  William Shakespeare

  Tables, Welcome, Dishes

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A good wit will make use of anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1372, Oxford University Press

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• Good words are better than bad strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Strokes, Good Words

  1599 Brutus to Octavius. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.29.

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• Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Hay, Fellows

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [37]

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• Some falls the means are happier to rise.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Mean

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• To persevere
  In obstinate condolement is a course
  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Persevere, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

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• And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
  Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew, Liquid, Youth

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