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Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

William Shakespeare
Honor, Should, Honestly

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

William Shakespeare
Time, Kings, Truth

An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Men, Two
1598 Dogberry toVerges. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act 3, sc.5, l.35-6.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

William Shakespeare
Father, Eye, Looks
William Shakespeare, Julie Hankey (2005). “Othello”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

William Shakespeare
Jealousy, Mad, Fool
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.93

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Smell, Deeds
William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.168

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

William Shakespeare
Darkness, Hug, Encounters
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 81

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Wise, Eye
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

William Shakespeare
Rumor, Tongue, Slander

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare
Love, Dream, Book
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

William Shakespeare
Heart, Long, Judging
1603-4 Iago. Othello, act1, sc.1, l.60-5.

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

William Shakespeare
Play, Rumor, Monsters
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

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

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

William Shakespeare
May, Defeat, Desdemona
'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 159

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

William Shakespeare
Light, Issues, Heaven
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

William Shakespeare
Laughter, Laughing, You Like It
'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Earth, Tombs
William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.56

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Honey, Dew
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Life, Men
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 108

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

William Shakespeare
Self, Why Not, Banishment
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.75

Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

William Shakespeare
Destiny, Years, Black
William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

William Shakespeare
Lasts, Glory, Rejoice
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (1999). “King Richard III”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Exercise, Challenges
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.753, BookCaps Study Guides

Love reasons without reason.

William Shakespeare
Reason
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope (1747). “The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes”, p.309

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.

William Shakespeare
Book, Grace, Honor
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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