William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 74

• 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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• So get the start of the majestic world
  And bear the palm alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Cassius, World, Majestic

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 128

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• Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.

  William Shakespeare

  Bachelors

  William Shakespeare (1869). “Shilling annotated Plays of Shakspeare for Students: Each Play with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes Critical Remarks and other Aids to a thorough understanding of the Drama. Edited for the use of Schools and Students preparing for Examination By the Rev. John Hunter”, p.96

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Loss, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

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• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

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

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• In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Art

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

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• Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Inequality, Seems

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.181

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• Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Jewels

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.306

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• So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Self, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2874, Oxford University Press

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

  William Shakespeare

  Wedding, May, Beloved

  William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.53

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• A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Benefits, Macbeth Motif

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Wish

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.927

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• Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Oil, Snuff

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press

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• I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Thank God, Giddy

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• He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Judgement, Distracted

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.361, A&C Black

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• What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Beast

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32

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• The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Folks, Chronicles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Share, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2121, BookBaby

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• The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Violent, Expeditions

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

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• There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Mercy, Fetters

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

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• Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair,
  Playing in the wanton air:
  Through the velvet leaves the wind,
  All unseen can passage find;
  That the lover, sick to death,
  Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Wind, Sick

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1847). “Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life”

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