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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Theatre
'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

William Shakespeare
Rivers, Trout, Peculiar
William Shakespeare, Nicolaus Delius (1859). “Shakspere's Werke”

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

William Shakespeare
Husband, Alliances, World
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1459, Oxford University Press

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

William Shakespeare
Strong, Eye, Arrows
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

William Shakespeare
Song, Imagination, Gorges
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

William Shakespeare
Life, Faith, Simple
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

William Shakespeare
Two, One Day, Lions
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 44

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

William Shakespeare
Faces
1596-7 Falstaff to Bardolph. Henry IV Part One, act 3, sc.3, l.23.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare
Love, Soul, Chaos
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Heaven, Compare
"The Winter's Tale".

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

William Shakespeare
Character, Hands, Play
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Foul, Fairs

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Wedding, Lying
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

William Shakespeare
East, Sun, Juliet

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

William Shakespeare
Teaching, Twenties, Done
"The Dramatic Works: Complete in Three Volumes".

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Stories, Sake
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

William Shakespeare
Cat, Puppy, Blind
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.946

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare
Foul, Throat
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII”, p.24

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Sight, Insults You
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.363, BookCaps Study Guides

But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Quality, Firmament
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

William Shakespeare
Moving, Angel, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

William Shakespeare
Girl, War, Fall
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 13, l. 60

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Kings, Science
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

William Shakespeare
Speak, Benedick
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

William Shakespeare
Self, Example, Denied
William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (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.4325, e-artnow

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