William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 60

• Love is . . . a madness most discreet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love Is, Madness

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• Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Conscience is a thousand swords.

  William Shakespeare

  Thousand, Conscience

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.207

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• A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

  William Shakespeare

  Girlfriend, Book, School

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• Ay me! sad hours seem long.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Hours, Seems

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.20

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• My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Dull, Forgotten

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.296

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• I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fall, Wine

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Melancholy, Let Me

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.72

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• I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Fighting, Flesh

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

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• A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Summer Nights, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [32]

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• Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

  William Shakespeare

  Calling, Sometimes, Branded

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• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• If ever thou shalt love,
  In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
  For such as I am all true lovers are,
  Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
  Save in the constant image of the creature
  That is beloved.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lovers, Beloved

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 15

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• I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

  William Shakespeare

  Safety, Enmity, World

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Trade, Moody

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc.5, l.1-2.

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• There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Daughter, Sleep

  1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

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• The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
  And Nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

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• My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dear Lord, Honor

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Stars, Conditions

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• I bear a charmed life.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Bears

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.271

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• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Arrows, Cupid

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare”, p.128

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• Let's take the instant by the forward top;
  For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
  The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
  Steals ere we can effect them.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Feet, Stealing

  "All's Well That Ends Well". Play by Thomas Middleton and William Shakespeare, 1741

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• Assume a virtue if you have it not.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Assuming, Assumption

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• An angel; or, if not,
  An earthly paragon.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Paragon, Ifs

  1610 Belarius, of Innogen in disguise. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.6, l.42-3.

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