William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 8

• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Doe, Beef

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

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• The cheek
  Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

  William Shakespeare

  Errands, Tongue, Countenance

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1363, Oxford University Press

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• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  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.121

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• A very honest woman but something given to lie

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Lying, Honest Woman

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]

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• A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Cures

  William Shakespeare, Abraham Wivell (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakespere: with original introductions, & notes to each play; & a biographical sketch of his life”

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• The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Guilt, Scorpions

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak, Infinite, Deals

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 114

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• I am that merry wanderer of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Dead Poets Society, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

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• This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Prison, Mines

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• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Shine Bright

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

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• Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Windsor

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 1, sc. 4, l. [5]

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Mind, Bars

  1593 Messenger to Sly.TheTaming of the Shrew, Induction 2, l.131-2.

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• Nothing can come of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Effort

  William Shakespeare (1917). “King Lear”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Pride went before, ambition follows him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Pride

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.175

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• Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Matter

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 3, l. [109]

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• I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Fire, Oil

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

  William Shakespeare

  Jest, True Words

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• Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Firsts, Scorn

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1788). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

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• Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Language, Speak

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• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak, Albany, Feels

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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