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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Hands, Color
William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

A little water clears us of this deed.

William Shakespeare
Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

To beguile the time, look like the time.

William Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth, Looks
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.

William Shakespeare
World, Week, Doomsday
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.164

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

William Shakespeare
Grief, Hands, Voice
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.160, BookCaps Study Guides

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Thank You, Brother
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Eye
William Shakespeare (1840). “Poems”, p.28

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Eye, Love Is
William Shakespeare (1847). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.148

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare
Keys, Silence, Enemy
William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.160

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

William Shakespeare
Jealous, Deeds, Letters
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Thee
William Shakespeare “Shakespeare's Play of a Midsummer Night's Dream”, Рипол Классик

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare
Summer, August, Misunderstood
Sonnet 18

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Men, Venice
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.69, Barron's Educational Series

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Sea
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2000). “The First Quarto of King Henry V”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

William Shakespeare
Farewell, Men, Soul
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.840

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

William Shakespeare
Deformity, Shows
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.212, Cambridge University Press

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

William Shakespeare
Army, Soldier, Navy
William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare
Doe, Obedience, Very Good
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 1, l. 6

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Alcohol, Brain
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

William Shakespeare
Spring, Flower, Violet
'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

William Shakespeare
Love, Romantic, Flower
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Eye, Purple
William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare
Life, Flower, Rose
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Flower, Rose
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Flower, Rose
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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