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Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

William Shakespeare
Military, Ambition, Soldier
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Mistress, Sound
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Kings And Queens, Divinity
"The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

William Shakespeare
Challenges, Honor, Born
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.565

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

William Shakespeare
Mad, Nostalgia, Mortality
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Winter, Clouds
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

William Shakespeare
Communication, Language, Stolen
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [39]

There's small choice in rotten apples.

William Shakespeare
Apples, Choices, Liberty
1593 Hortensio to Gremio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act1, sc.1, l.133-4.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

William Shakespeare
Play, Unhappy, Theatre
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

William Shakespeare
Solitude, Comfort, Sociable
1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 4, sc.2, l.12-13.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Loss, Play
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

William Shakespeare
Names, Tyrants, Tongue
William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

Much rain wears the marble.

William Shakespeare
Time, Rain, Marble
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

He is not great who is not greatly good.

William Shakespeare
Life, Good Life, Memorable
William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

William Shakespeare
Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Fire, Oil
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

William Shakespeare
Sad, Sweet, Heart
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.8759, BookCaps Study Guides

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

William Shakespeare
Three, Fairness, Kind
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare
Love, Honesty, Hate
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

I dote on his very absence.

William Shakespeare
Love, Love You, Absence
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [117]

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Three, Phrases
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

William Shakespeare
Love, Summer, Flower
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

William Shakespeare
Art, Work, Plebeians
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Memorable, Heart

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