William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 80

• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

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• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Tyrants, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

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• Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Sweet, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.8759, BookCaps Study Guides

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  Sonnet 18

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Pardon's the word to all.

  William Shakespeare

  Pardon

  William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles (1801). “The much admired glee of Hark the lark, as introduced in the 2d act [of Cymbeline]”, p.332

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• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Art, Spring

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

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• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sin

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

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• I must be cruel, only to be kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Memorable, Be Kind

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178

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• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Honesty, Hate

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

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• O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, School, Littles

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Treasury, Everlasting

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• We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Business, Military

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Spirit

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

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• Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other

  William Shakespeare

  Knows

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• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Men, Ambitious

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]

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• In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Fate, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

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• Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
  Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
  But was a race of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Race

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,
  Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear
  Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Politics, Politician

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1806). “King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II”, p.189

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• I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
  My absence doth neglect no great design
  Which by my presence might have been concluded.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Design, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Clothes, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.795, Wordsworth Editions

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• [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Fairness, Good Dog

  William Shakespeare, Henry NEELE (1824). “Shakespeare's Plays, with notes by H. Neele. With engraved plates”

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

  William Shakespeare

  Distance, Blow, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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