William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 111

• I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.725

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• Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

  William Shakespeare

  Paradise, Life Is, Knows

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• Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Like Her, Praise

  1598 Benedick, of Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.166-7.

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• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Knives, May

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

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• LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Dukes

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1480, Oxford University Press

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• Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Noses, Messengers

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.253, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Voice, Heaven

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

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• This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Black, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

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• thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

  William Shakespeare

  Sauce, Bitter, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

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• Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips

  William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dead Poets Society, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc

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• O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

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  Kings, Kissing, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare”, p.163, 谷月社

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• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Heaven, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. 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 E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.634

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• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Hair, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Action, Juliet

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Courtship, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The world must be peopled!

  William Shakespeare

  World

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Water, Ears

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• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Deafness, Cures

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

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• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

  William Shakespeare

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• Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

  William Shakespeare

  Pigs

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