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There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

William Shakespeare
Cutting, Done, Throat
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.1670

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

William Shakespeare
Laughter, Heart, Wine
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.315

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

William Shakespeare
Lying, Memorable, Faults
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 31

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Destiny, Merchant Of Venice
1596-7 Nerissa.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.81-2.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Mean, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Morning, Fairness
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.195, BookCaps Study Guides

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Depression, Husband
'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Taste
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

William Shakespeare
War, Men, Trying

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

William Shakespeare
Three, Hours, Late

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare
Language Words, Heaven, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare
Heart, Venice, Apples
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare
Love, Romantic, Valentines Day
William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Power, Devil
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare
Love, Birthday, Dance
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [348]

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Science
Cymbeline V.5

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Agents, Negotiation
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.41

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

William Shakespeare
Ignorance, Names, Mad
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Ifs
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.190

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

William Shakespeare
Love, Reading Poetry, Mind
Sonnet 116

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

William Shakespeare
Brave New World, People, Wonder
'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 182

Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Meat, Eating
1608 Volumnia. Coriolanus, act 4, sc.2, l.53-4.

Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Thinking, Rose

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare
Love, Wise, Running
1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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