William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 7

• My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

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• If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Knowing, Foundation

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Language, Speak

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• I'll note you in my book of memory.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Notes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.66

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• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak, Albany, Feels

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• I do desire we may be better strangers.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Desire, May

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [276]

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Life, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  1592 Henry of Queen Margaret. Henry VI PartTwo, act1, sc.1, l.19-20.

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• Time does not have the same appeal for every one

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Appeals

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• This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Prison, Mines

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• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Temptation

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• True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Wings

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Age

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• Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Mind, Bars

  1593 Messenger to Sly.TheTaming of the Shrew, Induction 2, l.131-2.

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• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Shadow, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.68

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

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• To do a great right do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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• Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Love Is, Nightmare

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• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Deeds And Words, Kind

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• All things are ready, if our mind be so.

  William Shakespeare

  Attitude, Mind, Preparedness

  William Shakespeare (1769). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.307

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• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lying, Writing

  Sonnet 17

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• The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Marketing, Treasure

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• I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Desdemona, Fury

  William Shakespeare (1757). “The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald”, p.314

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