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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Fellowship, Thee
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

William Shakespeare
Speech, Tongue, Language
William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

William Shakespeare
Language, Speak
William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1832). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings”, p.676

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare
Love, Use, Decay

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Lions, Claws
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1351

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

William Shakespeare
Women, Heart, Tigers
'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 4, l. 137

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Men, Suffering
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.184, Palgrave Macmillan

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

William Shakespeare
Art, Hurt, Hands
'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 1, l. [190]

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Thinking, Sound
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [12]

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

William Shakespeare
Art, Knives, Privilege
William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

William Shakespeare
Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

William Shakespeare
Retirement, Age, Care
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

William Shakespeare
Religious, Sweet, Men
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.142

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Work, Delight

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Fear, Silly
'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 42

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

William Shakespeare
Skulls, Political, Cain
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

William Shakespeare
Lying, Historical, Virtue
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

William Shakespeare
Life, Firsts, Worst
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

William Shakespeare
Men, Brotherhood, Our Love

He was not so much brain as earwax

William Shakespeare
Intellectual, Brain, Intelligence

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

William Shakespeare
Money, Work, Mean
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

William Shakespeare
Money, Gold, Use
William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

William Shakespeare
Gold, Twenties, Orators
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.148

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Gold, Glorious
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare
Wisdom, Character, Men
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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