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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

William Shakespeare
Lions, Summer Nights, Midsummer
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [32]

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

William Shakespeare
Hilarious, Faces

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

William Shakespeare
Dream, Sweet, Winning
'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

William Shakespeare
Wicked, Charity, Beast
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.100, Classic Books Company

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Anxiety, Mind
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

William Shakespeare
Bowels, Worms, Discord
William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

William Shakespeare
School, Youth, Grammar
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 7, l. [35]

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare
Gears, Wenches, Fortune
William Shakespeare (2015). “The Merchant of Venice: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.68, Broadview Press

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Father, Eye
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

William Shakespeare
Nice, Humorous, Sadness
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.747, BookCaps Study Guides

Frailty, thy name is woman!

William Shakespeare
Funny, Memorable, Sassy
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

William Shakespeare
Men, Advice, Comfort
William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Yeoman, Fairness
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

William Shakespeare
Life, Evil, Terrible
William Shakespeare (1734). “The Second Part of Henry the Sixth: With the Death of the Good Duke Humphry : a Tragedy”, p.55

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

William Shakespeare
Distance, Blow, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

How low am I, thou painted maypole?

William Shakespeare
Lows
"William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Eye, Dark
William Shakespeare (1862). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.52

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Joy, Violence
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

William Shakespeare
Food, Cooking, Quality
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Astrology, Birth
William Shakespeare, Roger Warren (1998). “Cymbeline”, p.236, Oxford University Press

Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Looks
"Romeo and Juliet".

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare
Fierce, Pity, Beast
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 71

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Ocean, Winter
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Unexpected, Endeavour
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.32, BookCaps Study Guides

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

William Shakespeare
Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

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