William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 3

• Strong reasons make strong actions.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Hard Work, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.231

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• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wine, People

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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• Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Effects

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• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Fool

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

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• Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

  William Shakespeare

  Poison, Sugar

  King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 2.

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• a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Hate, Boys

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• There's small choice in rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Liberty

  1593 Hortensio to Gremio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act1, sc.1, l.133-4.

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• Give thy thoughts no tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Income, Pay

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.262, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Ideas

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• The leopard does not change his spots.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Doe, Leopards

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• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Memorable, Should

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• Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellent, Lows, Gentle

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]

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• A good heart 'is worth gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Gold, Good Heart

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• Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

  William Shakespeare

  Essence, Intellectual, Literature

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• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Evil, Water

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• All difficulties are easy when they are known.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Easy, Difficulty

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Goodbye

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. 14

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• Justice always whirls in equal measure.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Equal

  William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”

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• Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Charity

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.277

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• Exit, pursued by a bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Exit, Surrealism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 3, stage direction

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