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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

William Shakespeare
Shining, Doe, Sun
William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, Stanley W. Wells (1994). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.154, Oxford University Press

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Blind, Fortune
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

William Shakespeare
School, Color, Play

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

William Shakespeare
Winter, Night, Fire
'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sleep, Heart
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

William Shakespeare
Heartbreak, Grief, Heart
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare
Book, Reading, Beer
William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Honesty, Being Honest
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.262

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

William Shakespeare
Guests, Dull, Fighter
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare
Men, Thinking, Looks
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Sound, Disease
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Sea, Vapour
William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

William Shakespeare
Senior, Boys, Dwarves
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare
Oysters, World, Mines
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

William Shakespeare
World, You Like It
'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. [12]

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare
Patience, Heaven, Lows
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...”, p.82

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

William Shakespeare
Alcohol, Desire, Mars
Macbeth II. 3

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Shadow, Bliss
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 63

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

William Shakespeare
Grief, Grieving, Clouds
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Joy, Weeping
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

William Shakespeare
Men, Grace, Religion
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

William Shakespeare
Love, Soul, Despair
'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

William Shakespeare
Fate, Grace, Enemy
William Shakespeare (2008). “Macbeth”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

William Shakespeare
Spring, Love You, Clouds
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

William Shakespeare
Apples, Choices, Rotten

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