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Blood will have blood.

Blood will have blood.

William Shakespeare
Blood
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

O for a horse with wings!

William Shakespeare
Horse, Wings
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 3, sc. 2, l. [49]

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

William Shakespeare
Love, True Beauty, Torches
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

William Shakespeare
Father, Forgive Me, Forgiving
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 4, l. 26

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Men, Foolery

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Past, Men
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

William Shakespeare
Retirement, Power, Giving
William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Soul, Wicked
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.339, BookCaps Study Guides

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Heart
1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, Sadness

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare
Play, Devil, Saint
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

The worm is not to be trusted.

William Shakespeare
Worms, Trusted
William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.318, Oxford University Press, USA

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Insomnia, Macbeth Theme
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

William Shakespeare
Love You, Oysters, May
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

William Shakespeare
Death, Night, Nurse
William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Honesty, Creativity
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

A very scurvy fellow.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Fellows
William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Way, Killing
1603-4 Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.368-9.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare
Peace, Memorable, Dignity
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Atheism, Positive Atheism
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Special, Sparrows
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

William Shakespeare
Loyalty, Doe, Fool
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1850). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play”, p.294

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare
Love, Men, People
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.222, Oxford University Press, USA

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Eye, Poison

Drink down all unkindness.

William Shakespeare
Drink, Unkindness
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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