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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare
Life, Karma, Respect
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Knowing, Foundation

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Heart, Blood
1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare
Art, Drinking, Food
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Witty, Sex
William Shakespeare (1841). “The Poems of Willm Shakspere”, p.142

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

William Shakespeare
Morning, Stars, Pain
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.

William Shakespeare
Boyfriend, Romantic Love, Heaven
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

William Shakespeare
Children, Hands, Envy
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.84

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare
Time, Hands, Guests
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Men, Evil
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Fire, Air
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.757, BookCaps Study Guides

Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Needs, Good Wine
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, epilogue l. [3]

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heart, Sleeves
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 64

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Loss, Thinking
Sonnet 30

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

William Shakespeare
Love, Heart, Soul
William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.12

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Art, Action
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.104

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

William Shakespeare
Serious, Crime, Negligence
William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.306

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare
Positive, Grief, Loss
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

William Shakespeare
War, Support, Suffering
William Shakespeare (2012). “Coriolanus”, p.3, Courier Corporation

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Rivers, Suffering
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

William Shakespeare
Time, Long, Dancing
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

William Shakespeare
Desperate, Violent, Hamlet Love
1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet. Hamlet, act 2, sc.1, l.103-5.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare
Law, Taming, Culture
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.410

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Romance, Enemy
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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