William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 81

• Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Astrology, Birth

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren (1998). “Cymbeline”, p.236, Oxford University Press

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• Frailty, thy name is woman!

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Memorable, Sassy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Advice, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I once did hold it, as our statists do,
  A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
  How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
  It did me yeoman's service.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Yeoman, Fairness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33

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• How low am I, thou painted maypole?

  William Shakespeare

  Lows

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

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• [Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

  William Shakespeare

  Hilarious, Faces

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• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Winning

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

  William Shakespeare

  Wicked, Charity, Beast

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.100, Classic Books Company

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Excess, Wealth

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.795

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• He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Equestrian, Medieval War

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [43]

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• An overflow of good converts to bad.

  William Shakespeare

  Overflow, Converting

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

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• Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fame, Conquest

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.126

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• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• Farewell, fair cruelty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Funny, Farewell

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.78

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• Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

  William Shakespeare

  Gears, Wenches, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Merchant of Venice: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.68, Broadview Press

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• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Instruction

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

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• Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Nobility

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.311

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• O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fickle, Juliet

  1595 Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.60.

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• I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Humorous, Sadness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.747, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Fierce, Pity, Beast

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 71

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• Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  William Shakespeare (1862). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.52

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• The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Fire, Thieves

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.401

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