William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 92

• Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Littles, Moments

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Serving God

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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• ...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sadness, Blood, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

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• He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Matter, Mirth

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Faults

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

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• Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Gambling, Dice

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [84]

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• The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Heaven, Way

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.316

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Grace, Virtuous

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.125

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• There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Evil

  William Shakespeare (1790*). “The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged”, p.204

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• When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

  William Shakespeare

  Eye

  William Shakespeare, Adrian Raymond (1963). “Shakespeare's Sonnets”, p.42, Heinemann

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

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• Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Ass

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.138

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• In the night, imagining some fear,
  How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Bears

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

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• Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Power, Half

  1603-4 Emilia to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.169-71.

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• I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

  William Shakespeare

  People, Lady Macbeth, Golden

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 31

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• Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

  William Shakespeare

  Resolution, Firm, Solutions

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.6820, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

  William Shakespeare

  Enemy, Chiefs, Safety And Security

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• The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Giving, Feelings

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 294

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• Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Bears, Important Hamlet

  1600-1 Polonius to Laertes. Hamlet, act1, sc.3, l.65-7.

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• For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Danger, Threshold

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.324, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

  William Shakespeare

  Human Nature, Shame, Customs

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Degrees, Merit

  1596-7 Aragon.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.40-2.

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