William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 112

• It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Weight

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Madness, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.300, Classic Books Company

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• thou art the best o' the cut-throats

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cutting, Throat

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Taken, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

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• Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

  William Shakespeare

  Vines, Mirth, Toys

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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• Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Done, Bright Days

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

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• What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Dear, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, North Star, Terrible

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wedding Anniversary, Fire

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.328

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• Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Mad, Female

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.363

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• Done to death by slanderous tongue

  William Shakespeare

  Eulogy, Done, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2727, Simon and Schuster

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• Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Olivia, Fool

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.32, Palgrave Macmillan

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• What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tempest, Arise

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Alexander Chalmers, Henry Fuseli (1805). “Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”, p.191

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• So. Lie there, my art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1857). “Dramatic Works, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed, with Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc”, p.110

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• Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Puff, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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• By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.205

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• She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Taming, Shrews

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions, with notes [&c.] by J.P. Collier. [With] Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays”, p.129

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Giving, Desire

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems”, p.9

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• Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Hands, Soul

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 47

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• Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

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• No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Love You

  Sonnet 71

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• I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Imagination, Ambitious

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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