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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 33

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I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

William Shakespeare
Jealous, Trouble, Vicious
William Shakespeare, Michael Neill (2008). “THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello: The Moor of Venice”, p.291, Oxford University Press

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

William Shakespeare
Mother, Father, Parent
William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes”, p.407

A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Eye, Shoes
"The Plays of William Shakespeare".

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Pride, Men
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.236, Bloomsbury Publishing

You'd be so lean, that blast of January Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day.

William Shakespeare
Spring, Flower, Blow

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

William Shakespeare
Following Instructions, Advice, Palaces
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare
Angel, Men, Hypocrisy
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Kissing
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

William Shakespeare
Men, Differences, Lust
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.198

Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

William Shakespeare
Winning, Victory, Loser
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.391

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

William Shakespeare
Butterfly, Ebb And Flow, Laughing
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Angel, Hair
William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.77, SIU Press

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

William Shakespeare
Inspiration, Sassy, Faces
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.346, Oxford University Press, USA

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

William Shakespeare
Adventure, Sea, Shore
William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.61, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Sexy, Lying
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.100, Cambridge University Press

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare
God, Sports, Religious
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Hamlet Revenge, Drink
William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Sweet, White
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Spring, Women
'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

Women may fail when there is no strength in man

William Shakespeare
Sex, Men, May
William Shakespeare (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.288

Heaven give you many, many merry days.

William Shakespeare
Anniversary, Giving, Heaven
William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare
Love, Sympathy, Death
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

William Shakespeare
Henry V, Kate, Asks
William Shakespeare, Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1905). “The Works of William Shakespeare”

Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Flower, Winter
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2941, Oxford University Press

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

William Shakespeare
Death, Dream, Halloween
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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