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Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

William Shakespeare
Art, Eggs, Sides
William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.139, Classic Books Company

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Science, Light
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

William Shakespeare
Love, Eye, Home
William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

William Shakespeare
Hilarious, Art, Warts
William Shakespeare, Bowdler (1823). “The family Shakspeare”, p.247

I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

William Shakespeare
Hilarious, Purple, Mad
"Henry the Fourth". Part One,

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

William Shakespeare
Laughing, Shallow, Jest
"King Henry V".

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.

William Shakespeare
Men
William Shakespeare (1866). “Dicks' complete edition of Shakspere's Works: With 37 illustrations and a memoir”, p.191

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet And Ophelia, Important Hamlet, Polonius
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Mad, Cupid
"The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Book, Eye
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

William Shakespeare
Time, Eye, Heart
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Farewell, Gentleman

Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?

William Shakespeare
Lying, Night, Light

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Past, Remembrance
Sonnet 30

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

William Shakespeare
Eye, Wicked, Tears
William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

William Shakespeare
Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Daggers
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

William Shakespeare
Fun, Oddities, Mind

Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were.

William Shakespeare
Faces
"The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere".

Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!

William Shakespeare
Baggage, Faces

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare
Let Me
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.121

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Passion, Mean
William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.58, Lorenz Educational Publishers

Let him smell his way to Dover!

William Shakespeare
Smell, Dover, Way
William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.799

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Heart, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

William Shakespeare
Woe, Pleasure
William Shakespeare (1852). “The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes”, p.403

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

William Shakespeare
Men, Sea, Mind
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspere”, p.132

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