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I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

William Shakespeare
Mind
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.725

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

William Shakespeare
Paradise, Life Is, Knows

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

William Shakespeare
Littles, Like Her, Praise
1598 Benedick, of Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.166-7.

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

William Shakespeare
Pain, Knives, May
William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Heart, Dukes
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1480, Oxford University Press

Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Thee, Benedick
William Shakespeare (2005). “Much Ado About Nothing: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.78, Prestwick House Inc

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Good Day, Hands
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Blood, Hands
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare
Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

William Shakespeare
Men, Heaven, Devil
William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.634

Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

William Shakespeare
Memories, Hair, Cities
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

William Shakespeare
Vices, Action, Juliet
1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Children, Air
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Courtship, Benedick
William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

The world must be peopled!

William Shakespeare
World
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

William Shakespeare
Woe, Traitor, Cases
1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Water, Ears

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

William Shakespeare
Tempest, Deafness, Cures
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

William Shakespeare
Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

William Shakespeare

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

William Shakespeare
Pigs

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tongue
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

William Shakespeare
Time, Long, Weight
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

Men should be what they seem.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Character, Reflection
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.371

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

William Shakespeare
Soul, Madness, Speak
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.300, Classic Books Company

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