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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 153

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An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

William Shakespeare
Fever, Emulation, Envious
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 129

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

William Shakespeare
Long, Endurance, May
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

More can I bear than you dare execute.

William Shakespeare
Endurance, Bears, Dare
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 129

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

William Shakespeare
Enemy, Conscience

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Errors, Mind
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1980, Oxford University Press

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

William Shakespeare
Needs, Excess, Lear
William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Inconstancy
William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.91

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

William Shakespeare
Men, Water, Mind
William Shakespeare (2016). “King Richard III”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Royal, Subjects
William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Rowe (1820). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry V. King Henry VI, Parts I and II”, p.166

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Kindness, Virtue
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

William Shakespeare
Light, Lust, Enemy
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].”

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Lust, Excess
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1547, BookCaps Study Guides

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Men, Village
William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

William Shakespeare
Nurse, Melancholy, Frenzy
William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Kings, Mind

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

William Shakespeare
Government, Obedience, Knows
William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.364

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

William Shakespeare
Ears, Discourse
'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet Death, Epitaph, Ill
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

William Shakespeare
Mouths, Speak, Graves
William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

William Shakespeare
Men, Faults

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, News, World

The due of honor in no point omit.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Dues, No Point
William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Ifs, Loses

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Flower, Men
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare
Law, Justice, Littles
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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