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Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

William Shakespeare
Angel, Grace, Denmark In Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Love Yourself, Honor
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.145

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Flower, Violet
William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Giving, Ornaments
Sonnet 54

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Men, Ignorant
William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.391, Bloomsbury Publishing

I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.

William Shakespeare
Scythes
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.336

The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

William Shakespeare
Country, Stars, Kings
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

William Shakespeare
Men, Liberty, Affair

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

William Shakespeare
War, Self, Self Love
William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.41, Cengage Learning EMEA

I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.

William Shakespeare
Queens, World, Royalty
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 2, sc. 2, l. 45

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

William Shakespeare
Men, Risk, Fortune
William Shakespeare (2016). “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.419, e-artnow

A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Wine, Imagination
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Fame
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

William Shakespeare
Night, Yield, Mourning
'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

William Shakespeare
Mortality, Certain, Dies
1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

William Shakespeare
Time, Grief, Night
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

William Shakespeare
Time, Boast
William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakspere's songs and sonnets, illustr. by J. Gilbert [ed. by H. Staunton. Interleaved.].”, p.65

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

William Shakespeare
Time, Desert, Shade
William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Kissing, Air
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.130, Penguin

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

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

Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Sound, Poison
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.82

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

William Shakespeare
Country, Lying, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

William Shakespeare
Voice, Speech, Speak
William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.37

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

William Shakespeare
Sugar, Tongue, England
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.450

The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Smart, Men
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.42

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