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There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Greatness, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Memorable, Thieves
1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare
Time, Gone, Time Management
William Shakespeare (1813). “King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V”, p.49

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Memorable, Way
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Ice
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

William Shakespeare
Doors, Soul, Strange
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1853). “The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.48

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

William Shakespeare
Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Play, Justice
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Years, Tunes
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare
Clouds, Whales, Camels
'hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [400]

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

William Shakespeare
Kings And Love, Lear, Regard
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.328

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

William Shakespeare
Men, Saint, May
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 127

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

William Shakespeare
Pride, Men, Glasses
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.642

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Thieves, Littles
William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Inspiration, Law
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

William Shakespeare
Nice, Fighting, Men
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

My only love sprung from my only hate.

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

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

William Shakespeare
Time, Knots, Hard
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1845, Oxford University Press

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

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

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

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

Love laughs at locksmiths.

William Shakespeare
Laughing
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

William Shakespeare
Night, Dead Poets Society, Midsummer
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Tyrants
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.213, BookCaps Study Guides

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Laughter, Laughing
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

William Shakespeare
Love, Sight, Giving
William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149

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