William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 154

• For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Messengers, Turns

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2647, BookBaby

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• Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Desert

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.64, Hackett Publishing

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• Now my charms are all o'erthrown.

  William Shakespeare

  Charm

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, epilogue, l.1-2.

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• Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Sound, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Giving

  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.43

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• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

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• It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Giving, Tongue

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• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Sound, Cracks, Flaws

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 413

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• Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

  William Shakespeare

  Iron, Age, Comfort

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.461, A&C Black

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• Come, Lady, die to live.

  William Shakespeare

  Dies

  William Shakespeare (1765). “The Plays: Of William Shakespeare, in Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson”, p.244

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• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Owl, Bells

  William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

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• Who is it that can tell me who I am?

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Who I Am

  William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

  William Shakespeare

  Lord, Excellent, Wells

  "Arden Shakespeare Complete Works".

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• O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

  William Shakespeare

  Thieves, Jugglers

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.326

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• true apothecary thy drugs art quick

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drug, Apothecary

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• whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Drunk

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• Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Burden, Heavy, Heavy Burdens

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Fear Of Death, Honour

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd”, p.92

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• I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Lips, Found

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.229, Heinemann

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• O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Mermaid, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.595

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• O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Daggers, Fancy

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• You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Wife, Hearing

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

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• POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

  William Shakespeare

  Lord, Polonius, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [195]

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• A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

  William Shakespeare

  Stories, Unicorn, Happy Endings

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