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This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

William Shakespeare
Night, Numbers, Guests
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.150

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Pale, Gin
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 89

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

William Shakespeare
Grace, Soul, Ears
William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

William Shakespeare
Guilt, Use, Tongue
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.397

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

William Shakespeare
Love, Men, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “As You Like it”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

William Shakespeare
Morning, Larks, Hawks
William Shakespeare (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes”, p.67

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Men, Thinking
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

William Shakespeare
Coward, Matter, Instinct
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

William Shakespeare
Jewels, Watches, May
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, War, Joy
Sonnet 8

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

William Shakespeare
Men, Venice, Merchant Of Venice
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

William Shakespeare
Dwelling, Knavery, Knaves
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 123

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

William Shakespeare
Knavery, Faces, Used
William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann (1996). “Othello: Third Series”, p.182, A&C Black

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

William Shakespeare
Mistress, Lilies, Fields
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.130

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

William Shakespeare
Men, Tongue, Tomorrow
William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

William Shakespeare
Wall, Eye, Men
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Men, Bait
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

William Shakespeare
World, Too Short, Ends
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.165

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Husband, Smell
1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

William Shakespeare
Medicine, Heaven, Shows
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.501

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

William Shakespeare
Nurse, Looks, Woe
William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

William Shakespeare
Mercy, Offense
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.167

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

William Shakespeare
Laughter, Moving, Agony
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1633, BookCaps Study Guides

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

William Shakespeare
Horror, Abandon, Remorse
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Men, Waiting
William Shakespeare (1999). “The Narrative Poems”, p.88, Penguin

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