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Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

William Shakespeare
Glory

CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heaven, Needs
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 1, l. 14

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Savages, Yoke
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [271]

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

William Shakespeare
Infidelity, Hips, Merchant Of Venice
William Shakespeare (1869). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.90

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare
Peace, Power, Strenght
"Measure for Measure".

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Men, Charity
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [14]

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Hope, Lovers, Staff
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.94, Oxford University Press

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

William Shakespeare
Winter, Balance, Self Improvement
1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

William Shakespeare
Dark, Love Is, House
William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Air, Musical
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare
Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

There's nothing in this world can make me joy.

William Shakespeare
Joy, World, Excitement
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.113, BookCaps Study Guides

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

William Shakespeare
Horse, May, Months
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.298

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

William Shakespeare
Skulls, Hair, Wind
William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Humorous, Men
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

William Shakespeare
Science, Atoms, Ease
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Men, Equality
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

William Shakespeare
Love, Lying, Lust
William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

William Shakespeare
Girl, Death, Art
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Kings, Spring
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

William Shakespeare
Death, Decay, Woe
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 103

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Poetry, Too Short
Sonnet 18

I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare
Liars, I Love Him, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance

William Shakespeare
Children, Love You, Eye
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare
Book, Reading, Dumb
Sonnet 23

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