William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 38

• Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Ems

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [133]

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• As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Light, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Up Early, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, June

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Atheism, Ornaments

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• For in the fatness of these pursy times
  Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Virtue, Pardon

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 153

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• Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Trouble, Macbeth Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Preparation

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• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Oracles, Lips

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Earth, Peacemaker

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The first sketches of the second and third parts of King Henry the Sixth”, p.84

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• Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thieves, Fit

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]

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• The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Abuse, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.300

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• The present eye praises the present object.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Praise, Objects

  William Shakespeare, 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.371

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• Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Office, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.426

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• Cold indeed, and labor lost:
  Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Winter, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1836). “Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.201

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• The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Athens, Politics, Forests

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar”, p.354

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• It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
  Sweet lovers love the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Bird

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

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• Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lust, Witchcraft

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.138

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• He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

  William Shakespeare

  War, Self, Self Love

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.41, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
  And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
  Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
  But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Grief, Night

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

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• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Loving Friends, Appeals, Intellect

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• A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Talking, Age

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

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• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Brave, Soul

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

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• Be as just and gracious unto me,
  As I am confident and kind to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Confidence, Kind, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.189, Oxford University Press

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