William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 73

• Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Appreciation, Men, Prize

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• The Thane of Cawdor lives,
  A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
  Stands not within the prospect of belief,
  No more than to be Cawdor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Gentleman, Belief

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.316

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Book, Heart

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• Besides, they are our outward consciences,
  And preachers to us all, admonishing
  That we should drew us fairly for our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Ends, Should, Preacher

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.359

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• The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Invisible, Cupid

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

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• Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

  William Shakespeare

  Fruit, Firsts, Ripe Fruit

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.297

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
  Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Affair

  1599 Cassius to Brutus. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.95-6.

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, World, Buffets

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• We must not stint
  Our necessary actions in the fear
  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
  Than vainly longing.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Longing

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Acting, Speak

  1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Bait, Opinion

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence
  And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
  Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
  More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Dumb, Tongue

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• For the success,
  Although particular, shall give a scantling
  Of good or bad unto the general;
  And in such indexes, although small pricks
  To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
  The baby figure of the giant mass
  Of things to come at large.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Book, Giving

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 343

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• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Hands, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, William Hazlitt, Isaac Reed (1851). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.358

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• So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
  To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Care, Afar

  William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Greatness, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.123

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• That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
  Like him that travels I return again,
  Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Return, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2863, Oxford University Press

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• Wish chastely, and love dearly.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wish, And Love

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. The winter's tale”, p.127

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• If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Wit, Ifs

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”, p.109

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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