William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 9

• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Heart, Grieving

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Philosophical, Borrowers

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

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• If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Knowing, Foundation

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• For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Done, Ends

  William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1860). “All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2”, p.343

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  1592 Henry of Queen Margaret. Henry VI PartTwo, act1, sc.1, l.19-20.

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• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Beacons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1931, Oxford University Press

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• I do desire we may be better strangers.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Desire, May

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [276]

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• Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Enforcement, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.237

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

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

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• God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Powerful, Feet

  1592 Henry. Henry VI PartTwo, act 2, sc.3, l.24-5.

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• All things are ready, if our mind be so.

  William Shakespeare

  Attitude, Mind, Preparedness

  William Shakespeare (1769). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.307

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• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

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• Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Love Is, Lovers

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• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Heart, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 82

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• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Love Is, Nightmare

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• And nothing is, but what is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• Let every man be master of his time.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

  William Shakespeare

  Phrases

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Taken, Wealth

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

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• There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

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• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Deeds And Words, Kind

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• the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life Is Short, Long, Shortness Of Life

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 2, l. 81

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