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Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

William Shakespeare
Men, Brave, Coward

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare
Valentines Day, Falling In Love, Love You

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

William Shakespeare
Men, Faults, Whips
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.212, Palgrave Macmillan

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Heaven, Rolling
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

William Shakespeare
Return, Taught, Important Macbeth
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

Let each man do his best.

William Shakespeare
Men
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.1393, BookCaps Study Guides

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

William Shakespeare
Wish, Purpose, Failing
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.577

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Voice, Giving
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Men, Brain
1594-5 King, of Armado. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.162-5.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

William Shakespeare
Years, Weapons, Command
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.821, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare
Mistress, Her Beauty, May
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

William Shakespeare
Wall, Vessel, Thrust
William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.7

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Fool, Learning More
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.

William Shakespeare
Looks, Weight
1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Blessing, Thinking
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.148

No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.

William Shakespeare
And Love, Dare, Love Dare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Mad, Heaven
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 5, l. [51]

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Father, May
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare
Time, Future, Knowledge
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare
Men, Play, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

William Shakespeare
Women, Memorable, Important
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

Done to death by slanderous tongue

William Shakespeare
Eulogy, Done, Tongue
William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2727, Simon and Schuster

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

William Shakespeare
Men, Olivia, Fool
William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.32, Palgrave Macmillan

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

William Shakespeare
Heart, Tempest, Arise
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!

William Shakespeare
Hate, Men, Air
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Alexander Chalmers, Henry Fuseli (1805). “Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”, p.191

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