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Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare
Teacher, Appreciation, Flower
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Speak
William Shakespeare (1850). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations”, p.58

Appetite, a universal wolf.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Culinary
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.231

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Doubt, Woe
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground

William Shakespeare
Love, Hate, Knows
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, p.432

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare
Love, Cheer, Blood
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.265

Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons, Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, Or any one of you, chop off your hand And send it to the King: he for the same Will send thee hither both thy sons alive, And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Son, Hands
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.419

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

William Shakespeare
Eye, Simple, Men
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [154]

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

William Shakespeare
Guitar, Degrees, Strings
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109

Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

William Shakespeare
Men, Knives, Naked
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [335]

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

William Shakespeare
Noses, World, Pay
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.218

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

William Shakespeare
Years, Three, Looks
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.100

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Giving, Tongue
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Promise, Purpose
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

William Shakespeare
Bird, Mind, Aspiration
William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.424, Cengage Learning EMEA

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Blood, Law
1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

William Shakespeare
Speak Less, Advice, Speak
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [132]

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

William Shakespeare
Men, Ignorant, Proud
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Eye, World
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

William Shakespeare
Disease, Desperate, Cures
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

William Shakespeare
Thieves, Way, Stealing
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [61]

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Clouds, Looks
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21

The fear's as bad as falling.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Fall
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.716

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!

William Shakespeare
Light, Rome, Wind
William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

As merry as the day is long.

William Shakespeare
Love, Love You, Long
1598 Beatrice, of St Peter. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.42-4.

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