William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 23

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanksgiving, Cheer, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1837). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.131

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• I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Juliet, Dies

  1595 Romeo to Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.9-11.

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• This is the very ecstasy of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Mars, Strive

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

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• Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Stuff, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]

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• Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

  William Shakespeare

  Vanity, Glasses, Shining

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sin, Mercy

  'Timon Of Athens' act 3, sc. 5, l. 3

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• Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Assured, Thyself

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [315]

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• in black ink my love may still shine bright.

  William Shakespeare

  Shine Bright, Shining, Black

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• Like madness, is the glory of this life.

  William Shakespeare

  Madness, Glory

  "The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes".

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Agony, Soul

  1594-5 Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.843.

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• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• Tongues I'll hang on every tree
  That shall civil sayings show. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Tree, Tongue, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.424

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• My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Sickness, All Things

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [191]

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• Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Evil, Departure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Omission, Sun, Danger

  William Shakespeare, Bowdler (1823). “The family Shakspeare”, p.179

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• Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

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• But love is blind and lovers cannot see

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Morning, Adorable

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• Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Lovers, Fantasy

  1595 Theseus. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc.1, l.4-6.

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• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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