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Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

William Shakespeare
Angel, Bed, Midsummer
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [131]

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

William Shakespeare
Art, Heaven, Devil
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.639

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

William Shakespeare
Should, Terror, Trifles
1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Water, Heat
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.658

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

William Shakespeare
World, Stage, Variance

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Lakes, Sea
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

William Shakespeare
Cutting, Lakes, Sea
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

William Shakespeare
Lakes, Sea, Fishing
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

William Shakespeare
Men, Lakes, Sea
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.15

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

William Shakespeare
Art, Philosophy, History
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.394

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

William Shakespeare
Christian, Atheism, Faces
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 5, l. [29]

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Atheism, Way
1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act1, sc.4, l.11-12.

Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

William Shakespeare
Golf, Hands, Holes
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

William Shakespeare
Age, Lordship, Smack
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [111]

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But where her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Humorous, Fighting
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

William Shakespeare
May, Speak, Chivalry
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.108, Oxford University Press, USA

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

William Shakespeare
Men, Age, Half
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']

William Shakespeare
Eye, Blow, Men

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Acting, Firsts
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Drinking, Eye
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Heart, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

William Shakespeare
Generosity, Giving, Gone
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Hamlet. Timon of Athens”, p.355

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

William Shakespeare
Generosity, Bird, Bullets
William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.39, Broadview Press

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Generosity, Giving
William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

William Shakespeare
Genius, Antony, Said
William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.855, Wordsworth Editions

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