William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 85

• And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Together, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.27, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sister, Sibling, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]

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• Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Sea, Vapour

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

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• This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

  William Shakespeare

  Senior, Boys, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

  William Shakespeare

  World, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. [12]

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• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.687

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

  William Shakespeare

  Heartbreak, Grief, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tongue, Wonder

  Sonnet 106

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• I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
  But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
  Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Hot

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows”

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• Give me to drink mandragora.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Drink, Forgetfulness

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 4

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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• How long a time lies in one little word?

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Long, Littles

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 213

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• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I cannot tell what you and other men
  Think of this life; but, for my single self,
  I had as lief not be as live to be
  In awe of such a thing as I myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men, Thinking

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

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• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

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• I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Action, Eleven

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• O momentary grace of mortal men,
  Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grace, Religion

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides

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• So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Thee, Wells, Wounds

  William Shakespeare (1807). “Macbeth: A Tragedy”, p.23

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• There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die, no soul will pity me.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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