William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 127

• Between the acting of a dreadful thing
  And the first motion, all the interim is
  Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Acting, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• If little faults proceeding on distemper
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
  When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
  Appear before us?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Drinking, Eye

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
  Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
  Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
  Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  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.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The breach of custom
  Is breach of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Breach, Customs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.28

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• What man dare, I dare.
  Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
  The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
  Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
  Shall never tremble.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Nerves, Shapes

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

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• Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
  Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
  That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
  Without our grace, our love, our benison.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Childhood, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Yon grey lines
  That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Dawn, Lines

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.67

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• Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
  The eating canter dwells, so eating love
  Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Decay, Eating

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• For what I will, I will, and there an end.

  William Shakespeare

  Decision, Resolution, Ends

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.96

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• Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

  William Shakespeare

  Sick, Despair, World

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.101, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Government, Royalty

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 3, l. [46]

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• Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Use, Fairy

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

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• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Past all shame, so past all truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Shame, Falsehood

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• Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
  Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
  The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
  The royal banner, and all quality,
  Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Farewell, Ambition

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell
  Till half an hour hence.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Heart, Mind

  William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1883). “Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes”

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• If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, May, Fancy

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.187

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• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Meditation, Fancy, Maidens

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Wavering, Longing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hang those that talk of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.222

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• But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
  Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
  In the affliction of these terrible dreams
  That shake us nightly.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

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

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• To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
  Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
  And so your follies fight against yourself.
  Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;
  And fight and die is death destroying death,
  Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Fighting, Giving

  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.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

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• O, where is loyalty?
  If it be banished from the frosty head,
  Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Earth, Fidelity

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry VI”, p.174, Penguin

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• No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

  William Shakespeare

  Black, Doe, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.350

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