William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 126

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Giving, Sullen

  Sonnet 71

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• The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fall, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.641

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• Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Blind, Reason, Cures

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Blushing, Perceive

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.630

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• Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Gold

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Space, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

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• Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

  William Shakespeare

  Bleeding, Made, Butchers

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.42

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• No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Things past redress are now with me past care

  William Shakespeare

  Acceptance, Caring, Past

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171

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• What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [256]

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• And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Idols

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.570

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• Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Deceit, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.115, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Deceit, Noses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

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• Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Deeds, Vanity And Pride

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

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• What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Grace, Gone

  1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

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• For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Deeds

  1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

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• Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Light

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

  William Shakespeare

  Black, Devil, Suits

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

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• Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Devil, Crosses

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

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• I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Littles, Holes

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

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• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Macbeth Play, Confined

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Watches, May

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Joy

  Sonnet 8

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides

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