William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 54

• I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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• The thing of courage
  As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
  And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
  Retorts to chiding fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Keys, Self

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

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• I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Pardon Me, Pardon

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1174, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My love admits no qualifying dross

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dross, Qualifying

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.298, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Let's meet as little as we can

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Party, Science

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

  William Shakespeare

  Nuts, Sweetest

  William Shakespeare (2006). “As You Like It”, p.13, Theatrefolk

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• To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Furious

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1839). “The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.”, p.194

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• The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Hot, Deaf

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Atheism, Reign, Strife

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Direct not him whose way himself will choose;
  'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Advice, Way, Breaths

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.256

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• Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

  William Shakespeare

  Journey, Age, Earth

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (écrivain) (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.71

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• Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Tempest, Baseness

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.56, Orient Blackswan

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Light

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• Men that hazard all
  Do it in hope of fair advantages:
  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Hazards

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

  William Shakespeare

  Gambling, Honor, Dice

  William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

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• I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Soul, Promise

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 115

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• Good reasons must of force give place to better.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Reason, Force

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 202

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• Be just, and fear not.
  Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
  Thy God's and truth's.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Ends, Fear Not

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
  To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

  William Shakespeare

  Done, Praying, Christianity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He that dies this year is quit for the next.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Years, Next

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

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• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

  William Shakespeare

  England, Common, Good Things

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [244]

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• I'll never
  Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
  As is a man were author of himself
  And knew no other kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Independence, Instinct

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 34

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• Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
  And every godfather can give a name.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Names, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.345

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• Faith, I have been a truant in the law
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Has Beens

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 2, sc.4, l.7-9.

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