William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 156

• When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Loss, Winning

  William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.130, Springer

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• Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Lord, Polonius

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.683, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Moonlight, Mets

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 60

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Dirty

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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• She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Yellow

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Mad, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [20]

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• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Scene, Fairs

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 92

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• This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.156, Oxford University Press, USA

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• the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

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• Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Passion, Mistress

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• The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Iron, Bed

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [372]

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• a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

  William Shakespeare

  Dedication, Water, Shore

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• By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Years, Let It Go

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Humphreys (1967). “King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series”, p.107, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Reflection, Cassius

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Hamlet And Ophelia, Green

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 101

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• By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mistress, Innocence

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4335, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Kings, Men

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Richard II”, p.82, Courier Dover Publications

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• You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

  William Shakespeare

  Shoes, Dancing, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

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• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Color

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• A little water clears us of this deed.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

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• To beguile the time, look like the time.

  William Shakespeare

  Lady Macbeth, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Week, Doomsday

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.164

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