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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

William Shakespeare
Grief, Yellow, Green
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

William Shakespeare
Men, Mad, Matter
William Shakespeare (1864). “Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare. The plays of Shakespeare, ed. and annotated by C. and M.C. Clarke, illustr. by H.C. Selous”, p.443

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

William Shakespeare
Needs, May, Poverty
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.140

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

William Shakespeare
Deeds, Trouble, Macbeth Sleep
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Preparation

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Oracles, Lips
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

William Shakespeare
Blessed, Earth, Peacemaker
William Shakespeare (1843). “The first sketches of the second and third parts of King Henry the Sixth”, p.84

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

William Shakespeare
Men, Thieves, Fit
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

William Shakespeare
Humility, Strings
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1372

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

William Shakespeare
Two, Abuse, Tongue
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.300

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Lasts, Taste
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare
Jealousy, Strong, Light
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 323

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Lust, Witchcraft
William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.138

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Heart, Kids
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.122

To be direct and honest is not safe.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Safe, Not Honest
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 376

He kills her in her own humor.

William Shakespeare
Taming, Taming Of The Shrew
William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price (2002). “Taming of the Shrew”, p.25, Theatrefolk

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

William Shakespeare
Time, Nurse, Good Times
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

William Shakespeare
Death, Heart, Sight
William Shakespeare (1856). “As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, what you will”, p.74

What is more miserable than discontent?

William Shakespeare
Miserable, Discontent
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field”, p.15, Classic Books Company

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare
Cousin, Father, Please Me
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.106, BookCaps Study Guides

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

William Shakespeare
Art, Struggle, Angel
William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Wrath
William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.372, Cengage Learning EMEA

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Loss, Men

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

William Shakespeare
Company, Spoil
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.110

A man should be what he seems.

William Shakespeare
Men, Should, Seems

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