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Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

William Shakespeare
Women, Said, Heard
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.364, Oxford University Press on Demand

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

William Shakespeare
Grief, World, Woe
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

William Shakespeare
Made, Lows, Graves
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.37, BookCaps Study Guides

I am declined Into the vale of years.

William Shakespeare
Years, Vapor
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Light, Age
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 77

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Sorrow, Tears
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare
Love, Sadness, Hours
Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.30, Insight Publications

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare
Gentleman, Taming, Shrews
William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.208, Cengage Learning EMEA

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Stars, Son
William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Spring, Short Summer
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.103

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

William Shakespeare
Eye, World, May
William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Laughing, Enemy
William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.439, e-artnow

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

William Shakespeare
Taming, Thanks, Taming Of The Shrew
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.249

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

William Shakespeare
Married, Sponges, Being Married
"Shakespeare on Temperance: With Brief Annotations".

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Halloween, Heart
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [218]

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Ophelia, Lord
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.920

Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

William Shakespeare
Morning, Rose, Dew
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 171

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

William Shakespeare
Gay, Jewels, Giving
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

William Shakespeare
Blame, Dues
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.542

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

William Shakespeare
Hate, I Hate, Murderer
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.482, Cengage Learning EMEA

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

William Shakespeare
Air, Meat, Chameleon
William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

And Caesar shall go forth.

William Shakespeare
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 44

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

William Shakespeare
Taught, Language, Tempest
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

William Shakespeare
Running, Sleep, Watches
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [287]

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