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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 42

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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Writing, Men

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

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

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Use
1604-5 Paroles to Helen. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.209-10.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Frost
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix.

William Shakespeare
Men, Phoenix, Proud
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare
Humorous, Silence, Laziness
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.32

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

William Shakespeare
Cities, Foundation, Way
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Fire, Lambs
William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

William Shakespeare
Comforting, Delight, Waste
William Shakespeare (1836). “Dramatical Works: King Henry the Eighth”, p.79

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Sex, Book
William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.223

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

William Shakespeare
Art, Fighting, Bravery
William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.461

All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.

William Shakespeare
Change, Cheer, Flower
William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

William Shakespeare
Cutting, Action
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [115]

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Men, Dying
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Grace, Mouths
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.64

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Acting, Actors
William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

William Shakespeare
Soul, Politics, Baffled
1595 Mowbray to Richard. Richard II, act1, sc.1, l.170-1.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

William Shakespeare
Saint George, Games, England
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

William Shakespeare
Retirement, Farewell, Forever
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 118

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

William Shakespeare
Elements, Matter, Return

Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!

William Shakespeare
Love You, White, Hands
William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.243

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

William Shakespeare
Autumn, Rich, Lord
William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.312

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

William Shakespeare
Running, Art, Moving

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

William Shakespeare
Forgiving, Malice, Pow
"Cymbeline".

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Hands, Noble
William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.306, Cengage Learning EMEA

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