William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 31

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

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• He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.942

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• The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Equality

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Atoms, Ease

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

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• Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Decay, Woe

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 103

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• CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heaven, Needs

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 1, l. 14

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

  William Shakespeare

  Hopeless, Friendless, Alas

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.604

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Lust

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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• For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Special, Earth

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.15-18.

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• Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Art

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Boldness be my friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Bravery, My Friends

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 1, sc. 6, l. 16

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• A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
  And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Kissing, Pay

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.899

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• When daffodils begin to peer,
  With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
  Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
  For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
  The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
  With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
  Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
  For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  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.217

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• I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Learning, Dinner

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181

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• In nature's infinite book of secrecy
  A little I can read.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Nature, Book

  1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Power, Strenght

  "Measure for Measure".

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• Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sleep, Eye

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• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Sight, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.244, Classic Books Company

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