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Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

William Shakespeare
Office, Degrees, Merit
1596-7 Aragon.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.40-2.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

William Shakespeare
Men, Hair, Given
William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.194

The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lasts, Pleasure
William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II”, p.260

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Purpose, Propose
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, People, Vulgar
William Shakespeare, Mrs. Elizabeth MONTAGU (1772). “An Essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare. By Mrs. Montagu. ... Second edition”, p.61

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Together, Affliction
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

William Shakespeare
Power, Eagles, Bird
1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare
Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Crowns, Temples
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

William Shakespeare
Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

William Shakespeare
Echoes, Voice, Numbers
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Silence, Saying Nothing
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

William Shakespeare
Slander, Possession, Succession
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

William Shakespeare
Suicide, Deeds, Ends
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Men, Eagles
1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!

William Shakespeare
Eating, Let Me, Dies
William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

William Shakespeare
Men, Envy, Age
William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

William Shakespeare
Envy, Half, Bears
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1257, Oxford University Press

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

William Shakespeare
Excellence, Constant, Stills

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Air, People
William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.

William Shakespeare
Men, Hands, Faces
William Shakespeare (2015). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

William Shakespeare
Book, Men, Looks
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

William Shakespeare
Dream, Sleep, Fancy
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Glasses, Two
William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

William Shakespeare
World, Faults, Judgment
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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