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The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

William Shakespeare
Christian, Hebrew, Kind
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

William Shakespeare
Sea, Neptune, Siege
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

I came, saw, and overcame.

William Shakespeare
Victory, Saws
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [44].

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Victory, Lap
William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Shapes, Virtue
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.837

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Thrifty, Ifs

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Virtue, Amends
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Envy, Teeth
William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

Seek happy nights to happy days.W

William Shakespeare
Night, Happy Day, Romeo And Juliet Play

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

William Shakespeare
Fowl, Fins, Fishes
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1098, BookCaps Study Guides

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

William Shakespeare
Doors, Elsewhere, Refuse
William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatio Works of W. Shakespeare: With Glossarial Notes. A Sketch of His Life. And an Estimate of His”, p.740

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Two, Together
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1786). “The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens...”

so full of shapes is fancy

William Shakespeare
Shapes, Fancy
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Sweet, Lying
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

Tempt not a desperate man

William Shakespeare
Love, Love You, Men
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 59

My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Mother, Husband
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Jealous, Eye
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

William Shakespeare
Queens, Lying, Team
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo Juliet
William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Violet
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

William Shakespeare
Wonderful, You Like It
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [202]

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

William Shakespeare
Dinner, Double Meaning, Benedick
William Shakespeare (2014). “Much ado about nothing with essential questions”, p.85, Lulu.com

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

William Shakespeare
Bending, Fool, Lips
Sonnet 116

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Fate, Mind
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.38

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

William Shakespeare
Book, Sound, Earth
'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

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