William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 78

• Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Brain, Elbows

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.86, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Philosophical, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Stolen, Crime And Criminals

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622

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• Marriage is a matter of more worth
  Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Matter

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 5, sc.7, l.55-6.

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• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Come,
  Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
  All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
  Let's mock the midnight bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Farewell, Night

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

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• While we lie tumbling in the hay.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Hay

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Our Love, Applause

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• I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Thank God

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [15]

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• I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Gonzalo From Tempest, Command

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Gaudy

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 1

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Long, Windsor

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• These blessed candles of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Night, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220

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• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Love Is, Lessons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

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• A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Hot, Cups

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

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• Patch grief with proverbs.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Patches

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

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• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Angel, Clouds

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Tides

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• This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Brain, Creation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Stupidity, Strange

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

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• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, World, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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