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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

William Shakespeare
Men, Envy, Dare
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

William Shakespeare
Fearless, Mind, Crowns
1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.8, l.62.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Eruption, Strange
William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

William Shakespeare
Pie, Age, Porridge
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

William Shakespeare
Men, Perfect, Mind
1605-6 Lear to Cordelia. King Lear, act 4, sc.6, l.52-6.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

William Shakespeare
Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Fighting, Rocks
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Father, Anger
William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Anger, Self
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Gordon McMullan (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.223, Cengage Learning EMEA

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

William Shakespeare
Dwelling, Architecture, Rich
William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1857). “Shakespere's Werke”

Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

William Shakespeare
Heart, Mean, Knives
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.149

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

William Shakespeare
Hands, Feet, Bravery
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

William Shakespeare
Clouds, Giving, House
William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

William Shakespeare
Youth, Faster, Grows
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I”, p.291

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

William Shakespeare
Fit, Caprice
William Shakespeare (2015). “Cymbeline”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

William Shakespeare
Art, Aprons, Doe
Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.3, Orient Blackswan

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Winning, Soul
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.237, BookCaps Study Guides

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Past, Execution
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.384, Cengage Learning EMEA

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Harmony, Enchanting
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

William Shakespeare
Men, Mutiny, Spirit

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

William Shakespeare
Dream, Strong, Law
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

William Shakespeare
Lions, Care, Proud
William Shakespeare (2009). “Macbeth”, p.73, Palgrave Macmillan

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Ears, Stranger
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, p.384

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Heart, Men
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

William Shakespeare
Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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