William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 119

• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Son, Men

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Light

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

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• Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Taming, Body

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.139, Book Jungle

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• Words to deeds cold breath gives.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Deeds, Cold

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [12]

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• Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Knives, Privilege

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Age, Care

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions

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• When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.142

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• The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Work, Delight

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• If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fortune, Torment

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1785, Modern Library

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• Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Care, Cures

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.19

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• When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Blue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

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• ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Our Actions, Madness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Fear, Silly

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 42

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• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Cain

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Historical, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

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• We are not the first
  Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Firsts, Worst

  William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Brotherhood, Our Love

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• He was not so much brain as earwax

  William Shakespeare

  Intellectual, Brain, Intelligence

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• He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Work, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]

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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Gold, Use

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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