William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 34

• What a fool honesty is.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fool

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [608]

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• Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Fairness, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

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• I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Hate, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [78]

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Weeping

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

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• Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Greed, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 7

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• Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

  William Shakespeare

  Remember, Speak, Mortality

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”

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• In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

  William Shakespeare

  Twilight, Sunset, Night

  Sonnet 73

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• What, can the devil speak true?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Devil, Speak

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 107

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• They love least that let men know their loves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friendship, Men

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.57, SIU Press

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• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Lying, Order

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Cups, Ingredients

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.38

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• We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Bird, Shapes

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Onions

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.47, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Soldier, Deceit

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.203, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Trouble, Vicious

  William Shakespeare, Michael Neill (2008). “THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello: The Moor of Venice”, p.291, Oxford University Press

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• Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Knots

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”

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• A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Shoes

  "The Plays of William Shakespeare".

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• The proverb is something musty.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [366]

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• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

  William Shakespeare

  Following Instructions, Advice, Palaces

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Parent

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes”, p.407

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• O, the difference of man and man!
  To thee a woman's services are due.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Differences, Lust

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.198

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• O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

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• But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Angel, Hair

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.77, SIU Press

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• wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

  William Shakespeare

  Adventure, Sea, Shore

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.61, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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