William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 33

• This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Soul, Looks

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 271

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Kissing, Kind

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.220, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Love You, Lovers

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [296]

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.

  William Shakespeare

  Ifs

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• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Memorable, Animal

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7

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• Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Men, Jewels

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.308, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Glasses, Proud

  1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

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• Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hands, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.461

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, Done

  1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.

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• Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Smell, Lilies

  Sonnet 94

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Moon, Rome

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 27

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• The love of wicked men converts to fear;
  That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
  To worthy danger and deserved death.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hate, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Circles, Fickle

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 107

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• Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Causes, Ends

  1606 Ross to S I ward. Macbeth, act 5, sc.11, l.10-12.

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• But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Loss, Thinking

  Sonnet 30

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• Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Animal

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Cassius, Ears

  Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 2, l. 74 (1599)

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

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