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William Shakespeare Quotes about Halloween

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Math, Insanity
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

William Shakespeare
Good Night, Dream, Halloween
William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.177, Sourcebooks, Inc.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Memorable, Play
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, World, Sides
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3289, BookCaps Study Guides

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Power, Madness
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Ifs
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.190

Take pains. Be perfect.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Halloween, Perfect
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer-night's dream. Merchant of Venice”, p.350

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Halloween, Dark
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

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

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Heart, Kids
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.122

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Powerful, Halloween
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Foul, Fairs

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, School, Littles
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

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

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Halloween, Heart
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [218]

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Thee
William Shakespeare “Shakespeare's Play of a Midsummer Night's Dream”, Рипол Классик

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, Ass
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.138

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

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

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare
Halloween
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.43, Shakespeare Comic Books

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Halloween, Thinking
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Halloween, Lying
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.50

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