Top 25 Quotes by William Shakespeare of 4028 - Page 98

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