William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 121

• Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Deceit, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.50

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• Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Lying

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2601, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Friendship, Loving Friends, Lost Friend

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1176, Modern Library

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• If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

  William Shakespeare

  Scarves, Kinky, Proud

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.224

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• Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Believe, Men

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

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• Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Belief, Secrecy

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [113]

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• Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, House, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Twenties, Trouble

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.177, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Taming, Wenches

  1593 Katherine.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 5, sc.2, l.185.

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You kiss by th' book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Kissing

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Romeo and Juliet: Third Series”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Ambition, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.131, Classic Books Company

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• Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sailor, Bowels

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yarn, Despair

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Change, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

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• . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sympathy, Leaving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.

  William Shakespeare

  Pay, Suits, Strife

  William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed”, p.61

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• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 114

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• O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Men, Might

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 123

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• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Haste, Glory

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Charity, Curse

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Scotch, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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