William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 46

• Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Frost

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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• She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
  She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
  Were man as rare as Phoenix.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Phoenix, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
  Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Politics, Baffled

  1595 Mowbray to Richard. Richard II, act1, sc.1, l.170-1.

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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  William Shakespeare

  Elements, Matter, Return

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• Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, White, Hands

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.243

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• Talkers are no good doers.

  William Shakespeare

  Humorous, Silence, Laziness

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.32

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• That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Foundation, Way

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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• There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

  William Shakespeare

  Comforting, Delight, Waste

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Dramatical Works: King Henry the Eighth”, p.79

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• Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
  So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Sex, Book

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.223

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• Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Fighting, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.461

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• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

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• Hold, or cut bowstrings.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Action

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• They say, the tongues of dying men
  Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
  Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
  For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle;
  I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace"
  In an ungracious mouth is but profane.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Grace, Mouths

  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.64

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• To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Art, Moving

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• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

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• The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiving, Malice, Pow

  "Cymbeline".

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• I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Noble

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.306, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Monsters, Lions

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• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• The curse of marriage
  That we can call these delicate creatures ours
  And not their appetites!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Vapor, Adultery

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• The color of the king doth come and go,
  Between his purpose and his conscience,
  Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
  His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Passion, Color

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Monsters, Ingrates, Being Me

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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