William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 26

• Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Sparrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Way, Killing

  1603-4 Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.368-9.

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• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Creativity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• A very scurvy fellow.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Fellows

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Eye, Poison

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• Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, People

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.222, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

  William Shakespeare

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Sisterhood

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 208

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• Drink down all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Drink, Unkindness

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Wise

  'Richard III' (1591) act 3, sc. 1, l. 79

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• The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Doe, Fool

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1850). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play”, p.294

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Watches, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [12]

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• That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Drunk, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Devil, Saint

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• I was a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Instinct

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [304]

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• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

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• I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

  William Shakespeare

  Firsts, Taught, Should

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [439]

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• So many horrid Ghosts.

  William Shakespeare

  Ghost

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.387

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• The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Taste, Juliet

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Being Happy, Real Friends

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

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• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Halloween, Dark

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279

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• I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wonder, Dare

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 2, l. [45]

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• No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Patterns, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [37]

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• Friendship is full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Dregs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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