William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 35

• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Sassy, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.346, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Sexy, Lying

  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.100, Cambridge University Press

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• I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Sigh

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler, Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1849). “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 Aloud in a Family”, p.210

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• But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

  William Shakespeare

  Henry V, Kate, Asks

  William Shakespeare, Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1905). “The Works of William Shakespeare”

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• Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
  Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Sweet, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

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• Then with the losers let it sympathize,
  For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Victory, Loser

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.391

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• Heaven give you many, many merry days.

  William Shakespeare

  Anniversary, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• You'd be so lean, that blast of January
  Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
  I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
  Become your time of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Blow

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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• I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Pride, Men

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.236, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sir, the year growing ancient,
  Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
  Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
  Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
  Which some call nature's bastards.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Winter

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2941, Oxford University Press

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

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

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Respect

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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• Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
  Drink off this potion!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Hamlet Revenge, Drink

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• Women may fail when there is no strength in man

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Men, May

  William Shakespeare (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.288

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• Were kisses all the joys in bed,
  One woman would another wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Witty, Sex

  William Shakespeare (1841). “The Poems of Willm Shakspere”, p.142

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Heart, Blood

  1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.

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• A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Boyfriend, Romantic Love, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

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• What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Good wine needs no bush.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Needs, Good Wine

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, epilogue l. [3]

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• But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Sleeves

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 64

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