William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 91

• For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Smell, Deeds

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.168

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• Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Book

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

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• Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Long, Judging

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act1, sc.1, l.60-5.

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

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

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• If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Hug, Encounters

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 81

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• Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Rumor, Monsters

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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• Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
  Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
  Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
  As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
  But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
  The smallest scruple of her excellence,
  But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
  Herself the glory of a creditor -
  Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Issues, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

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• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Laughing, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

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• The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Earth, Tombs

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.56

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• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Men

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 108

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• A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Tales, Goblin

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24

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• Make not your thoughts your prisons.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Prison

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations 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 Edmond Malone”, p.591

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• Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Shadow

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.118

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• If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Blind, Mark

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)”, p.43, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Remembrance, Nails

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 2, sc. 4, l. 194

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• By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heaven, Taught

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.154

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• But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Miserable, Pity

  William Shakespeare (2015). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.60, Booklassic

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• Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Together

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.112

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• And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Ruins

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.331

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• Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

  William Shakespeare

  Love, May, Appetite

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409

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• One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Devil, Hell

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

  William Shakespeare

  Engineering, Bridges, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.280

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• There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Science, Men

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• For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Squash

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305

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