William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 116

• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  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.920

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• My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, House, Ancestor

  1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

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• A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Winter, Sisterhood

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.238

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• The soul of this man is his clothes.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.147, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Advice, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1874). “The Shakespeare Argosy: Containing Much of the Wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit”, p.38

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• But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

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• He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Causes, Reputation, Fame

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.104

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• They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.118

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• The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

  William Shakespeare

  Passing On, Two, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 17

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• She's good, being gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Sarcastic, Gone

  William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knowing, May

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [19]

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• Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Another Day, Revolution

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.420

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• Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Flower, Fall

  1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.

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• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vanity, Glasses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pieces, Cheese

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

  William Shakespeare

  Fun, Argument, Staples

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [18]

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• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Giving, Obedience

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.7392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A harmless necessary cat.

  William Shakespeare

  Cat

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 53

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• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Glasses, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Eye, Charity

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.81, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

  William Shakespeare

  Holiday, Shops, Beggar

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

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• We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Venice, Mercy Of God

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

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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