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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Men
William Shakespeare (2010). “Coriolanus”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Matter
1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 5, sc.7, l.55-6.

I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Horse, House
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

William Shakespeare
Retirement, Farewell, Night
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

While we lie tumbling in the hay.

William Shakespeare
Love, Lying, Hay
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

William Shakespeare
Father, Our Love, Applause

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Men, Thank God
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [15]

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Gonzalo From Tempest, Command
William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Sea, Gaudy
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 1

This is the short and the long of it.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Long, Windsor
"The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

These blessed candles of the night.

William Shakespeare
Blessed, Night, Merchant Of Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

William Shakespeare
Teaching, Love Is, Lessons
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Hot, Cups
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

Patch grief with proverbs.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Patches
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Angel, Clouds
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Stuff, Tides

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Brain, Creation
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Alcohol, Doe
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

William Shakespeare
Crush, Men, Elephants
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Fighting, Hands
William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

William Shakespeare
Running, Stupidity, Strange
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

William Shakespeare
Blow, Stupidity, Bud
William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

William Shakespeare
Passion, World, Mouths
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

William Shakespeare
Creativity, Creative, Shame
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.374

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

William Shakespeare
Jealous, Sleep, Law
William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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