William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 75

• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Midsummer, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Sonnet 94

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• Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

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• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Fall, Scotch

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, White, Knavery

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.218

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• I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Patterns, Heat

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
  That Time will come and take my love away.
  This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
  But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Ruins, Taught

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.928

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• Thou art a Castilian King urinal!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Kings, Sassy

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

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• Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Birth, Worms

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes, by A. Chalmers”, p.279

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• Thy food is such
  As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Sassy, Lungs

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.400

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• I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
  monster!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Laughing, Monsters

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1084, A&C Black

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• Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Brain, Elbows

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.86, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Philosophical, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Stolen, Crime And Criminals

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622

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• Marriage is a matter of more worth
  Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Matter

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 5, sc.7, l.55-6.

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• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Come,
  Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
  All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
  Let's mock the midnight bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Farewell, Night

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

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• While we lie tumbling in the hay.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Hay

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Our Love, Applause

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• I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Thank God

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [15]

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• Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Apes

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• A table-full of welcome!

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Tables, Welcome

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1850). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations”, p.58

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• Appetite, a universal wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

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• O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Doubt, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

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