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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

William Shakespeare
Women, Wenches, Razors
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

William Shakespeare
Women, Feet, Resolution
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 237

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

William Shakespeare
Women, Agreement, Voice
William Shakespeare (2015). “Henry V”, p.152, Booklassic

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

William Shakespeare
Song, Stars, Sea
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

William Shakespeare
Love, Heaven, Grace
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.117

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

William Shakespeare
Life, Character, Men
William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare
Desire, Sin, Covetousness
William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare
Lying, Venice, Shylock
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

William Shakespeare
Blow, Wind, Sea
"The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare
Dog, Heart, Men
William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Heaven
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Dream, Honor
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

William Shakespeare
Taming, Shrews, Born
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.

William Shakespeare
Queens, Mean, Light
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Passion, Gallantry

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

William Shakespeare
Death, Tired, Cry
Sonnet 66

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

William Shakespeare
Death, Speechless, Sentences
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.233

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

William Shakespeare
Women, Years, Two
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.841, Wordsworth Editions

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

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

Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

William Shakespeare
Time, Flower, Use
1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

William Shakespeare
Dance, Dancing, Hamlet And Ophelia
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.220, Classic Books Company

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

William Shakespeare
Time, Glasses, Long
Sonnet 22

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

William Shakespeare
Time, Strong, Men
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

William Shakespeare
Death, Art, Journey
William Shakespeare, Charles Knight (1843). “The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...”

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

William Shakespeare
Skills, Excellence, Strive
William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.529

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