William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 161

• There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Angel, Orbs

  1596-7 Lorenzo to Jessica.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 5, sc.1, l.58-61.

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• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

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• Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Halloween, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.50

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• With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Funeral, Mirth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The instances that second marriage move
  Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Moving, Thrift

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The pleasing punishment that women bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Errors, Punishment

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.114

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• Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Moon, Gentleman

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [28]

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• Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
  I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
  To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
  We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Play, Crowns

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• Thy tongue
  Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
  Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
  With ravishing division, to her lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Sweet

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]

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• Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
  A good mouth-filling oath.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Art, Mouths

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Art, Influence

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
  Was ever woman in this humour won?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Humour

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 229

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• Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
  And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
  To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
  He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
  To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Soul

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Glasses, Nymphs

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Wenches

  William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price (2002). “Taming of the Shrew”, p.13, Theatrefolk

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• Fie, fie upon her!
  There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
  Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
  At every joint and motive of her body.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Feet

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 54

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• Is she not passing fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Passing, Passings

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Perfect

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 110

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• I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Ballads, Print

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceited, Body Work, Strongest

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• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Business, Delight

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

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• A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gentleman, Months

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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Agents, World

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 10, l. [36]

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• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cat, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

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