William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness

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• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Our Actions, Brighten Your Day

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1808). “Coriolanus; Or The Roman Matron. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. London, Longman 1808. 68,89,71,75 S., 4 Tf”, p.48

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• Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.704, Oxford University Press

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• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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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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• 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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• I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Sigh

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler, Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakspeare: In One Volume : in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.210

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• And either victory, or else a grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.146

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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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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

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

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• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ears, Prosperity

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Destiny, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Nerissa.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.81-2.

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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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• Men's vows are women's traitors

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Vow

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.235

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• Foul whisperings are abroad

  William Shakespeare

  Whispering, Foul

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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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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• Beware
  Of entrance to a quarrel.

  William Shakespeare

  Entrances, Quarrels

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

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• I have more care to stay than will to go.

  William Shakespeare

  Caring, Care, Want

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 23

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• Are there no stones in heaven
  But what serves for thunder?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Stones, Thunder

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 232

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