William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 103

• As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Wisdom, Age

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

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• Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

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  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1823). “Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus”, p.119

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• Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorant, Let Me, Knows

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.89

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• Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ifs

  William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• The play's the thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• The cunning livery of hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Hell, Cunning

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.105

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• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Naked, Steel

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Mirrors

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

  William Shakespeare

  Cracks, Break, Oath

  1607 Pericles to Helicanus. Pericles, sc.2, l.125-6.

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• Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Lordship, Smack

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [111]

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• Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

  William Shakespeare

  Pie, Age, Porridge

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

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• Pray, do not mock me.
  I am a very foolish fond old man,
  Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
  And, to deal plainly,
  I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  1605-6 Lear to Cordelia. King Lear, act 4, sc.6, l.52-6.

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fighting, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Anger is like
  A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
  Self-mettle tires him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Anger, Self

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Gordon McMullan (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.223, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Architecture, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1857). “Shakespere's Werke”

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• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
  No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
  But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?
  O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
  Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
  Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
  A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
  To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mean, Knives

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.149

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• What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Feet, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Giving, House

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

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• For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

  William Shakespeare

  Youth, Faster, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I”, p.291

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• A woman's fitness comes by fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Fit, Caprice

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Cymbeline”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

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• Speak, what trade art thou?
  Why, sir, a carpenter.
  Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
  What does thou with thy best apparel on?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Aprons, Doe

  Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.3, Orient Blackswan

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• Love and meekness, lord,
  Become a churchman better than ambition:
  Win straying souls with modesty again,
  Cast none away.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Winning, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.237, BookCaps Study Guides

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• O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
  'Tis like a pardon after execution.
  That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
  But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Execution

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.384, Cengage Learning EMEA

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