William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 130

• We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Curtains, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
  But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
  Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
  And I shall have no power to follow you.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Iron

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• My love's more richer than my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1825). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare: with glossarial notes, a sketch of his life, and an estimate of his writings”, p.290

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
  But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
  Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Science, Sea

  Sonnet 65

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• Who are the violets now
  That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Violet

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

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• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Purple

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• He wears the rose
  Of youth upon him.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Flower, Rose

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
  For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Air

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• And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, Drink, Felony

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Beer, Blessing

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

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• Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

  William Shakespeare

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Joyful

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• My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Emotional, Crowns

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.138

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• I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Emotional, Feelings

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 122

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Abuse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Glory, Touched

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

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, East, West

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

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• My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Hands, Human Nature

  Sonnet 111

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• There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Causes

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. [3]

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• Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1853). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete”, p.235

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• Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Good Luck, Luck

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.414

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