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Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

William Shakespeare
Baby, Nurse, Justice
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 1, sc. 3, l. 23

I may command where I adore.

William Shakespeare
Love, May, Adore
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [117]

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

William Shakespeare
Money, Taming, Taming Of The Shrew
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. [82]

With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Moon, Generosity
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

William Shakespeare
Echoes, Doctors, Land
William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1859). “The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens”, p.280

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

William Shakespeare
Fate, Age, Should

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

William Shakespeare
Delight, Flattery, Praise
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Fall, Eye
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

William Shakespeare
World, Down And, Fool
1599-1600 Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.7, l.12-17.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Negatives Make, Two
William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2000). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1211, Cengage Learning EMEA

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

William Shakespeare
Wisdom, Dog, Men
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

William Shakespeare
Mind, Wheels, Compass
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Sea, Safety
William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

William Shakespeare
Dragons, Golden, Fruit
William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm.

William Shakespeare
Rain, Storm, Gains
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.144, Classic Books Company

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Generosity, Being Free
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

William Shakespeare
Guilty, Glory, Crime
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?

William Shakespeare
Dream, Would Be, Glory
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1871). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H.N. Hudson”, p.84

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

William Shakespeare
Gossip, Foul, Rings
William Shakespeare (2014). “Macbeth”, Simon and Schuster

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

William Shakespeare
Looks, Green, Grass
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Tasks, Speak
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.292

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Blow
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [370]

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Helping, Study
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.103

Great griefs medicine the less.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Medicine
William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1853). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy--delineations of Character--paintings of Nature and the Passions--one Thousand Aphorisms--and Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.457

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Two, Tongue
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.227, Oxford University Press on Demand

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