William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 137

• To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Nimble, Thunder

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

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• Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Lips, Philosopher

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night”, p.29

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• Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

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  Prayer, Saint, Use

  William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

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• For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grace, May

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [161]

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• War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Dark, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

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• Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Waiting, Cold

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

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• The insolence of office.

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Insolence

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, One Day, Upbraid

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.329

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• Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.581

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• Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

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• No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Imperfection, Reckoning, Made

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 74

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Birth, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Venice, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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• O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Age, Should

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• Poor wretches that depend
  On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
  Wake, and find nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Greatness, Done

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
  Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Politics, Pluck

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The thorny point
  Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
  Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
  And know some nurture.

  William Shakespeare

  Civility, Courtesy, Smooth

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtesy, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]

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• Women are angels, wooing:
  Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
  That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Angel, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Coward, Hardness

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

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• For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
  I have a truant been to chivalry;
  And so I hear he doth account me too.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak, Chivalry

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.108, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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• Milk-livered man,
  That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
  Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
  Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
  Fools do those villains pity who are punished
  Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
  France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
  With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
  Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
  'Alack, why does he so?']

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Men

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