William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 147

• Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Praying, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1791). “THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE”

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
  Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
  The better angel is a man right fair,
  The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Two

  Sonnet 144

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• Rest you fair, good signior;
  Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mouths, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.170

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Noses, Innocence

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

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• If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

  William Shakespeare

  People, Catchy, Hated

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• O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Art, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56

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• One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

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• I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Inward

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXVIii”

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• Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dresses, Fancy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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• I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Empty, Made

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sight, Might

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre”, p.198

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• Live how we can, yet die we must.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dies

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Eye, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 86

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• Make passionate my sense of hearing.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Passionate, Hearing

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Every cloud engenders not a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Perspective, Storm

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.660, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

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• To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Sea, Floating

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• Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Two, Let Me

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6623, Delphi Classics

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• Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flesh, Obesity

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [184]

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