William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 4

• Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Guests, Hospitality

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 2, sc. 2, l. 55

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• Exit, pursued by a bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Exit, Surrealism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 3, stage direction

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• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Sin

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

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• In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance

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• If your mind dislike anything obey it

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Ifs, Dislike

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• All's well if all ends well.

  William Shakespeare

  Ends, Wells, Ifs

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• When I was at home I was in a better place

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Touchstones, Better Place

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [16]

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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• Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Believe, Musical

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Men, Cry

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.165

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

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• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

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• Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Judging, Heaven

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 99

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• Speak low, if you speak love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Silence, Romance

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [104]

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Shame

  1598-9 Bourbon, returning to the battle. HenryV, act 4, sc.5, l.19.

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• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

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