William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 96

• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Meditation, Fancy, Maidens

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Wavering, Longing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I lose my honor,
  I lose myself: better I were not yours
  Than yours so branchless.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Ifs, Loses

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• Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
  To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
  Suppose the singing birds musicians,
  The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
  The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
  Than a delight measure or a dance;
  For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
  The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I beseech you,
  Wrest once the law to your authority:
  To do a great right, do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Justice, Littles

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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• When law can do no right,
  Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Bars, Can Do

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.70, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I must have liberty
  Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
  To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Liberty

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 47

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• But love that comes too late,
  Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
  To the great sender turns a sour offense,
  Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gone, Too Late

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• Love's heralds should be thoughts,
  Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
  Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
  Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
  And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wind, Wings

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is your master, for he masters you;
  And he that is so yoked by a fool
  Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Fool

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.140, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Reason, Lord

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.124

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• Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

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• In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
  To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
  By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Names

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

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• If yon bethink yourself of any crime
  Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace,
  Solicit for it straight.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heaven, Grace

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.126, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Nymphs, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 89

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• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
  Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
  All many be well.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Steel

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Plot, Shapes, Divinity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
  And hold-fast is the only dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Cake

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

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• Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3867, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Princes have but their titles for their glories,
  An outward honor for an inward toil;
  And, for unfelt imaginations,
  They often feel a world of restless cares.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Honor, Toil

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

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• Nature does require her times of preservation.

  William Shakespeare

  Environmental, Doe, Stewardship

  1613 Wolsey to Henry. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.147-8.

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• Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

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• On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
  Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
  Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
  As is the difference betwixt day and night
  The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
  Begins his golden progress in the east.

  William Shakespeare

  Team, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

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• Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
  Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Eye

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
  And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
  As infants empty of all thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Attachment

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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