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When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

William Shakespeare
Holy, Fray, Devilish
William Shakespeare (1962). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.35, Sparklesoup LLC

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

William Shakespeare
Killing, Swine

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

William Shakespeare
Fool, Twelfth Night Important

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

William Shakespeare
Rich, Praise
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 84.

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Sweet, Laughter
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.

William Shakespeare
Hungry

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

William Shakespeare
Drunk, Bed, Rage
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.381

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

William Shakespeare
Men, Lady Macbeth, Murder
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

William Shakespeare
Heart, Taming, Body
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.351

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

William Shakespeare
Honey, New Moon, Juliet
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.374

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Unhappy, Mouths
William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.838

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

William Shakespeare
Arrows, Haste, Looks
William Shakespeare (2011). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)”, p.45, Saddleback Educational Publ

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

William Shakespeare
Fog, Air, Hovering
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1723). “The works of Shakespear: In six volumes”, p.517

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

William Shakespeare
Dog, Pox, Tempest
William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

William Shakespeare
Monsters, Fool, Caliban

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

William Shakespeare
Blow, Wind, May
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Men, Blood, Hands
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Maids, May
'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Wife, Mind
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

William Shakespeare
Destiny, Past, Tempest
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Tears, Looks
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.149

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare
Blessed, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth
1595 John of Gaunt. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.40-50.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Moon, Night
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

William Shakespeare
Venice, Stuff, Born
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Can I go forward when my heart is here?

William Shakespeare
Heart, My Heart, Romeo And Juliet Play
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.811

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