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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 149

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Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Tyrants, Courtesy

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Color, Purpose
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [184]

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

William Shakespeare
Witty, Fun, Lying
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

William Shakespeare
Block, Past, Endurance
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, 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.49

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Kings, Interesting
King Henry the Fifth (1600), Act II, scene 2. These words are engraved on a plaque at Bletchley Park, the manor house near London that housed British signals intelligence and codebreaking during World War II.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

William Shakespeare
Venice, Satisfaction, Satisfied
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [416]

My love is as a fever, longing still.

William Shakespeare
Love Is, Fever, Longing
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

William Shakespeare
Men, Might, Should
William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

William Shakespeare
Smell, Heaven, Dignity
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 36

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

William Shakespeare
Gentleman, Encounters, Opinion
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.43

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

William Shakespeare
Royal, Fairness, Gracious
William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.912, BookCaps Study Guides

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Hamlet And Ophelia, Fairness
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

William Shakespeare
Father, War, Humility
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!

William Shakespeare
Angel, Air, Bird
William Shakespeare (2015). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

William Shakespeare
Men, Ducks, Enemy
William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.35, Palgrave Macmillan

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Heaven, Grace
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Kindness, Eye
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Might, Needs
William Shakespeare (2015). “The Sonnets and Narrative Poems”, p.101, Everyman's Library

Is she kind as she is fair?

William Shakespeare
Fairness, Kind, Fairs
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

William Shakespeare
Saint George, Dragons, Standards Set
1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

William Shakespeare
Art, Air, Heaven
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

William Shakespeare
Home, Sleep, Night
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

William Shakespeare
Arms, Fairness, Fairs
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.112, Oxford University Press, USA

As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd Or Night kept chain'd below.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Night, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1844). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone : with a Life of the Poet”, p.13

Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

William Shakespeare
Heart, Soldier, Ears
William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.54, Cengage Learning EMEA

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