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There is a world elsewhere.

There is a world elsewhere.

William Shakespeare
World, Elsewhere
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 3, sc. 3, l. 131

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

William Shakespeare
Block, Sassy, Stones
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 1, l. [39]

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

William Shakespeare
Coward, Lions, Matter
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.281

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

William Shakespeare
Cheer, Wall, Giving

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

William Shakespeare
Love, Art, Magic
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 5, sc. 3, l. 109

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

William Shakespeare
Darkness, Tempest, Acknowledge
William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.99, Orient Blackswan

The let-alone lies not in your good will.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Good Will
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.322, Classic Books Company

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Advice, Lady Macbeth
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Long, Twenties
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.133, Cengage Learning EMEA

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

William Shakespeare
Night, Tiptoes, Melancholy

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

William Shakespeare
Degrees, Bars, Tongue
'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 194

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Blow, Boys
William Shakespeare (2016). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.33, Penguin

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

William Shakespeare
Passion, Wish, Trials
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.

William Shakespeare
People, Different, Cold

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare
Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter
David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare
Night, Soul, Majesty
William Shakespeare (1963). “Hamlet”, p.41, CUP Archive

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Night, Devil
William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

William Shakespeare
Heart, Sorrow, Faces
William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.134

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare
Air, Honor, Reckoning
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [131]

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Shadow, Twenties
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.68

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.

William Shakespeare
Wells
William Shakespeare (2015). “Othello: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.28, Ignatius Press

My stars shine darkly over me

William Shakespeare
Stars, Shining
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.262

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

William Shakespeare
Tree, Soul, Fruit
"The Complete Works of William Shakspeare".

Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

William Shakespeare
Art, Prayer, Hands
"Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest".

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

William Shakespeare
Suffering, Thee, Benedick
"Love's labour's lost. Much ado about nothing. Merchant of Venice".

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