William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 98

• They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

  William Shakespeare

  Jobs, Men, Police

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [19]

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• A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

  William Shakespeare

  Stories, Unicorn, Happy Endings

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). “Othello”, p.68, Barron's Educational Series

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• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Looks

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.156

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• For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Comfort, Done, Woe

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.8, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

  William Shakespeare

  Lasts, Vow, Scene

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• A plague on both your houses.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Plague

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.137, Heinemann

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• O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonderful, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [202]

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• Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

  William Shakespeare

  Dinner, Double Meaning, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Much ado about nothing with essential questions”, p.85, Lulu.com

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• Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

  William Shakespeare

  Bending, Fool, Lips

  Sonnet 116

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• I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fate, Mind

  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.38

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• I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sound, Earth

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

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• For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Mirrors, Should

  William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Athens, New Friends

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.189

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• For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Knows

  1590-1 Valentine.TheTwo Gentlemen ofVerona, act 2, sc.4, l.175.

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• My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Love Is, Fire

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.55

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• The quality of mercy is not strained

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy Of God, Gentle Rain, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Jesus, Tombstone

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• For grief is crowned with consolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

  "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene 2, line 173, 1600s.

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• Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Thank You, Teacher

  William Shakespeare (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical”, p.246

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• What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

  William Shakespeare

  Determination, Memories, Purpose

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• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Suicidal

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.16, l.82-4.

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