William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Thieves, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Sin, Covetousness

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

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

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

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• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Beacons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1931, Oxford University Press

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• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

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• Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Halloween

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.177, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Truth, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Sports, Sweet

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Powerful, Feet

  1592 Henry. Henry VI PartTwo, act 2, sc.3, l.24-5.

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• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Degrees, Poor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]

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• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Best Friend, Family

  William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price”, p.394

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Guilt, Scorpions

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• Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.531

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• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Memorable, Men

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• I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Juliet, Dies

  1595 Romeo to Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.9-11.

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Stars, Fate

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
  Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
  Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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• What's done can't be undone.

  William Shakespeare

  Done, Undone

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

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• Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Loving Someone, Waste

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