William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 89

• Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Should, Honestly

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• Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Rumor, Monsters

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Hug, Encounters

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 81

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• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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• And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

  William Shakespeare

  Self, Why Not, Banishment

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.75

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• Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
  Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
  Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
  As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
  But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
  The smallest scruple of her excellence,
  But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
  Herself the glory of a creditor -
  Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Issues, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

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• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Laughing, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

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• The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Earth, Tombs

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.56

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• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Years, Black

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

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• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Men

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 108

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• But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

  William Shakespeare

  Lasts, Glory, Rejoice

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (1999). “King Richard III”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• No, by my soul, I never in my life
  Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
  Unless a brother should a brother dare
  To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Exercise, Challenges

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.753, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The nature of bad news affects the teller.

  William Shakespeare

  News, Bad News

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• There's villainous news abroad.

  William Shakespeare

  News

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.371

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• Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Fields

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.154, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Done, Action

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Fate, Destiny

  1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

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• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Bending, Bears

  Sonnet 116

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• You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Sassy, Malt

  William Shakespeare (2003). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Dignity, Fingers

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
  thou learn a prayer without book.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Prayer, Book

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• A fusty nut with no kernel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Nuts, Kernel

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.724, Wordsworth Editions

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• Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Sassy, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1960, Oxford University Press

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• The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Past

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