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Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

William Shakespeare
Mean, Angel, Grace
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

William Shakespeare
Beautiful, Girl, Men

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

William Shakespeare
Men, Spices, Shapes
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.577

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

William Shakespeare
Perfection, Littles, Moments
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

William Shakespeare
Evil, Devil, Serving God
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

William Shakespeare
Evil, Temptation, Sometimes
William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

William Shakespeare
Sadness, Blood, Nurse
William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

William Shakespeare
Exercise, Matter, Mirth
William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.164, A&C Black

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Devil, Hell
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

William Shakespeare
Running, Dog, Office
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Men, Names
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

William Shakespeare
Adversity, Past, Best Things
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.425

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet And Ophelia, Jewelry, Lord
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [165]

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

William Shakespeare
Judging, Thieves, Stealing
1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Medical, Antidote
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

William Shakespeare
Country, Pride
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [99]

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Twilight, Sunset
Sonnet 73

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

William Shakespeare
World, Compliment, Feigning
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [110]

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Writing

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

William Shakespeare
Money, Father, Fall
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

William Shakespeare
Poetry, Tree, Teeth
William Shakespeare (2013). “Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]”, p.147, Demitra Papadinis

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

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

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare
Men, Tongue, Courtesy
William Shakespeare (1909). “Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet”

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

William Shakespeare
People, Lady Macbeth, Golden
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 31

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

William Shakespeare
Resolution, Firm, Solutions
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.6820, BookCaps Study Guides

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