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Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Ems
'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [133]

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Fate, Men

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Thinking, Dull
William Shakespeare (1850). “Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon”, p.16

Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, June
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Up Early, Rose
William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.56, Courier Corporation

If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Sides, Opinion
William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.11

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

William Shakespeare
Errors, Atheism, Ornaments
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Garden, Two
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

Ready to go but never to return.

William Shakespeare
Return, Ready
William Shakespeare (2010). “Romeo and Juliet: In Full Colour, Cartoon Illustrated Format”, p.53, Shakespeare Comic Books

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare
Home, Memorable, Youth
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Windsor
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 1, sc. 4, l. [5]

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

William Shakespeare
Eye, World, Distrust
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Life and Death of King John”, p.242, Oxford University Press, USA

I myself am best When least in company.

William Shakespeare
Solitude, Company
William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors”, p.11

It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Spring, Bird
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

William Shakespeare
Long, May, Worst
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 27

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

William Shakespeare
Summer, Art, Wind
Sonnet 18

Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Heart, Boys
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29

Patch up thine old body for heaven.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Body, Patch Up
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare
Loving Friends, Appeals, Intellect

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Grace, Speak
William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.117

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

William Shakespeare
Teaching, Men, Church
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare
Love, Tongue, Rich
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Queens, Spring
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

William Shakespeare
Cities, Upbraid, Blind
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Speech, Language
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

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