Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
“The Rape of Lucrece,” l. 790 (1594)
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Lovers and madmen have seething brains,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.I.4
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 3, sc. 5
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, I.I.59
HELENA: Oft expectation fails and most oft there
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
All’s Well that Ends Well, II.i.145 (1602)
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well that Ends Well, IV.iii.74
We, ignorant of ourselves,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so we find profit by losing of our prayers.
Antony and Cleopatra, II.I.5
To business that we love we rise betime
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And go to it with delight.
Antony and Cleopatra, IV.iv.20
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 1 (1599)
All the world’s a stage,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts ….
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 139 [Jaques] (1599)
O, how full of briers is this working-day world!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, I.iii.11
We are true lovers run into strange capers.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.iv.54-55 (1599)
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The wide and universal theater
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.
As You Like It, II.vii.136
We are not all alone unhappy.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.vii.136
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, IV.iii.129
I do now remember a saying,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a fool.’
As You Like It, V.i.31-32 [Touchstone] (1599)
Ingratitude is monstrous.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, II.iii.9
You might have been enough the man you are
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
With striving less to be so.
Coriolanus, III.ii.19-20
You might have been enough the man you are
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
With striving less to be so.
Coriolanus, III.ii.19-20
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, III.ii.76
Society is not comfort
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
To one not sociable.
Cymbeline, IV.ii.12
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, IV.iii.46
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet
The miserable have no other medicine
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
But only hope.
Hamlet
This above all: to thine own self be true,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet I.iii.78-80 [Polonius] (c.1600)
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet III.i.139 [Hamlet] (1600)
The dread of something after death,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The undiscovr’d country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than to fly to others that we know not of?
Hamlet, 3.1.78 [Hamlet] (1600)
HAMLET: If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, 5.2.230 (1600)
Season your admiration for a while.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, I.I.192
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
While he the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
Hamlet, I.iii.48-52 (1602)
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet, I.iii.62-63
Meet it as I should set it down
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That one may smile and smile and still be a villain.
Hamlet, I.v.106-7
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, II.ii.207
HAMLET: Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, III.i.83 (1600)
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, IV.v.43
There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet, V.ii.10-11
If all the year were playing holidays,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Henry IV, Part 1, I.ii.208
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, I.ii.88-89
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, V.iv.145-6
O thoughts of men accursed!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Past and to come seems best; things present worst.
Henry IV, Part 2, I.iii.108 [Abp. of York] (c. 1597)
Are these things then necessities Then let us meet them like necessities.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, III.i.92-93
Ignorance is the curse of God.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, IV.vii.75
GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Henry IV, Part I, III.i.53-55
KING HENRY: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, 3.1.31 (1597)
A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 5, sc. 2 [Henry] (1599)
Full text. Quoted by Walter Mondale as a eulogy for Hubert Humphrey.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, I.I.60
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As self-neglecting.
Henry V, II.iv [Dauphin] (1599)
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Would men observingly distil it out.
Henry V, IV.I.4
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, V.i.3
Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden.
Henry VI, Part 2, III.i.31
KING HENRY: Thrice is he arm’d that hath his quarrel just.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, III.ii.233 (1590)
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, II.v.55
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, IV.vi.39
KING HENRY: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, 3.3.31 (1590)
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That it do singe yourself.
Henry VIII, I.I.140
Out with it boldly; truth loves open dealing.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VIII, III.i.39 [Queen Katharine]
‘Tis a kind of good deed to say well,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Yet words are not deeds.
Henry VIII, III.ii.153-154
BRUTUS: When love begins to sicken and decay,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
It useth an enforced ceremony.
Julius Caesar, 4.2.20 (1599)
BRUTUS: There is a tide in the affairs of men,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar, 4.3.218 (1599)
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2 (1599)
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar, I.ii [Cassius] (1599)
CASSIUS: Men at some times are masters of their fates:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar, I.ii.139 (1599)
O, that a man might know
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The end of this day’s business ere it come!
Julius Caesar, V.I.122
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, II.i.82
And oftentimes excusing of a fault,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.
King John, IV.ii.28-31
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man: To hang his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, I.ii
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, I.ii [Edmund] (c. 1605)
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, I.iv.353
ALBANY: Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, I.iv.369 (1605)
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, II.ii.13-21 [Earl of Kent] (1608)
The worst is not
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”
King Lear, IV.i [Edgar] (1606)
(Source)
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, IV.ii.38
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
King Lear, IV.vi.166
Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, V.ii.11
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, V.iii.
Frequently misattributed (with "often" for "oft") to Joseph Addison.
Men are as the time is.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, V.iii.31
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
PORTER: It provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him: it sets him on, and it takes him off.
Macbeth II.iii.32 (1605)
MACBETH: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, 5.5.24 (1605)
Things without all remedy
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Should be without regard: what’s done is done.
Macbeth, III.ii.11 (1606)
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
Macbeth, IV.iii [Malcolm] (1606)
Wife and child,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Those precious motives, those strong knots of love.
Macbeth, IV.iii.26
What’s done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, V.I.71
Our doubts are traitors
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Measure for Measure, I.iv [Lucio] (1603)
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Another thing to fall.
Measure for Measure, II.i [Angelo] (1604)
O, it is excellent
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure, II.ii.107-109
O, what may man within him hide,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Though angel on the outward side!
Measure for Measure, III.ii.274
Truth is truth
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
To the very end of reckoning.
Measure for Measure, V.i.45-46
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render.
Merchant of Venice, IV.i.205-208 [Portia] (1598)
Full text.
For there was never a philosopher
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That could endure the toothache patiently.
Much Ado About Nothing, V.I.35
How poor are they, that have not patience! –
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?
Othello, Act 2, sc. 3 [Iago]
Full text.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Othello, I.iii.201
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Othello, I.iii.204
The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Othello, I.iii.208
Our bodies are our gardens,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
To the which our wills are gardeners.
Othello, I.iii.315-6
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Othello, II.iii.379
Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Othello, III.iii [Iago] (1603)
Grief makes one hour ten.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, I.ii [Henry Bolingbroke] (1595)
KING RICHARD: Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
Richard III, V.iii.309 (1592)
JULIET: My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet, 2.2. 133 (1594)
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, II.ii.186
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And vice sometime by action dignified.
Romeo and Juliet, II.ii.21
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
By any other word would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet, II.ii.43
MERCUTIO: A plague o’ both your houses!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, III.i.111 (1594)
PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain’d;
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
The Merchant of Venice, 4.1.195 (1596)
SHYLOCK: Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, sc. 1 (1596-98)
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
The Merchant of Venice, I.iii.1 (1596)
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Merchant of Venice, I.iii.98
Thou call’dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs ….
The Merchant of Venice, III.iii [Shylock] (c. 1597)
The man that hath no music in himself,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Nor is moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.
The Merchant of Venice, V.i [Lorenzo] (1596)
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
When mercy seasons justice.
The Merchant of Venice, VI.i.196-197
FORD: Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 327 (1600)
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Merry Wives of Windsor, II.ii.311
Were kisses all the joys in bed,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
One woman would another wed.
The Passionate Pilgrim, IV.8 (1599)
… frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life.
The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, sc. ii [Messenger] (c. 1590)
PROSPERO: My library
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Was dukedom large enough.
The Tempest, 1.2.109 (1611)
We are such stuff
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest, 4.1.156 [Prospero] (1611)
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
In yours and my discharge.
The Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1, ll. 253-54 [Antonio]
Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
So have we all, of joy.
The Tempest, II.i.1-2
We are such stuff
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with sleep.
The Tempest, IV.i.156-158
Exit, pursued by a bear.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Winter’s Tale, Act III, sc. 3 [Stage Direction] (1623)
What’s gone and what’s past help
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Should be past grief.
The Winter’s Tale, III.ii.220
Daffodils,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.
The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.118
So we profess
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.
The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.543-545
So we profess
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.
The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.543-545
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.801-804
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
But to support him after.
Timon of Athens, I.i.107-108
The fire i’the flint
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Shows not till it be struck.
Timon of Athens, I.i.22-23
Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
For policy sits above conscience.
Timon of Athens, III.ii.86-87
Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
For policy sits above conscience.
Timon of Athens, III.ii.86-87
To be in anger is impiety;
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
But who is man that is not angry?
Timon of Athens, III.v.57
These words are razors to my wounded heart.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Titus Andronicus, Act 1, sc. 4 (c. 1590)
Take but degree away, untune that string,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
And hark what discord follows.
Troilus and Cressida, I.iii.109-110
Modest dobut is called
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
The beacon of the wise.
Troilus and Cressida, II.ii.15-16
Perseverance, dear my lord,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Keeps honor bright; to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail,
In monumental mockery.
Troilus and Cressida, III.iii.150-53
The devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato finger.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Troilus and Cressida, V.ii.55-56
In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, II.v, ll 155-59 [Malvolio] (1601)
In context..
These most brisk and giddy-paced times.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, II.iv.6
In nature there is no blemish but the mind:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
None can be called deformed but the unkind.
Twelfth Night, III.iv.379-380 [Antonio] (1601)
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, IV.ii.43
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belie with false compare.
Sonnet 130
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