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O war! thou son of Hell!

O war! thou son of Hell!

William Shakespeare
War, Son, Hell
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

William Shakespeare
Age, Together, Care
'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

William Shakespeare
Doe, Tongue, Flattery
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare
Love, Sweet, Art
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Causes, Cry
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare
Persistence, Men, Ordinary
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.63, Classic Books Company

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Knowledge, Delight
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare
Love, Long, Wells
Sonnet 73

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

William Shakespeare
Intelligence, Gulls, Ghost
Sonnet 86

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Brother, Arrows
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [257]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Men, Giving
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.562

I have more care to stay than will to go.

William Shakespeare
Caring, Care, Want
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 23

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

William Shakespeare
Art, Men, Creating
William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

William Shakespeare
Letters, Heirs, Firsts
William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.320, Bantam Classics

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Names, Honor
William Shakespeare (2003). “Untitled”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Time, Clouds
1597-8 Prince Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.2, l.133-5.

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

William Shakespeare
War, Honor, Companionship
William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Dwarves, Giving
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

William Shakespeare
Cake, Baking, Lips
William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.206

Would the cook were o' my mind!

William Shakespeare
Mind, Cooks, Cookery
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1452, Oxford University Press

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

William Shakespeare
Offending, Soul, Honor
William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

William Shakespeare
Heart, White, Coward
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Green, Docks
'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Perfection, Crow
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

William Shakespeare
Despair, Tongue, Speak
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.254, BookCaps Study Guides

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