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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

William Shakespeare
Loyalty, Truth, Character
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.486

More matter with less art.

William Shakespeare
Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Grace
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 87

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

William Shakespeare
Crooks, May, Knees
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Maidens
William Shakespeare (1769). “The merchant of Venice ...”, p.39

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

William Shakespeare
Night, Weather, Tree
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

William Shakespeare
Mountain, Caves, Fit
William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Lying, Memorable
William Shakespeare (2008). “The Tempest”, p.27, Palgrave Macmillan

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Eye, Men
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.116

The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

William Shakespeare
Gone, March, Ides Of March
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

William Shakespeare
Dancing, Dancer, Enemy
William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

William Shakespeare
Farewell, Frost, November
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

William Shakespeare
Writing, Eye, Men
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 144

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

William Shakespeare
Time, Maturity, Past

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Powerful, Halloween
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heaven, Religion

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Shylock, Bears
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [42]

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Time, Events
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [377]

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

William Shakespeare
Grace, Doe, Natural
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [91]

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness
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.193

We have seen better days.

William Shakespeare
Time, Memorable, Past
'Timon Of Athens' act 4, sc. 2, l. 27

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare
Motivational, Health, Garden
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]

Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Lips, Eternity
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​

William Shakespeare
Confusion, Midsummer, Spleen
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

William Shakespeare
Life, Physicians, Silliness
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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