William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 87

• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Bells

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 47

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• Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Merriment

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Thanks to men
  Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Thankfulness

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John”, p.498

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• Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
  And could of men distinguish her election,
  Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Men, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Mermaid, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.595

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• Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• Take it in what sense thou wilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Play

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.805

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• My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

  William Shakespeare

  Portugal, Affection, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.204

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• See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Memorable, Design

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• Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Waste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 42

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• What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Dark, Wind

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 3, sc. 3, l. 35

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• O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Pain, Past

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Wish, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.5, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• O, a kiss
  Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
  Hath virgined it e'er since.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Revenge

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

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• Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

  William Shakespeare

  Dumb, Respect Me, Effects

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2854, Oxford University Press

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• I am not in the giving vein today.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Veins, Charity

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 2, l. 115

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• A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Home, Numbers

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

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• Remembrance of things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Remembrance, Nostalgia

  Sonnet 30

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• Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Scandal, States

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

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• To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fool, Beast

  William Shakespeare (1976). “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”, p.38, Heinemann

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• Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Followers, Discharge

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• I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.88

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• Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, War, Law

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.196, Palgrave Macmillan

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• His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

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