WIST Quotations

Shakespeare, William -- “Lucrece,” l. 790 (1594)

Dave — Wed, 12 May 2004 21:26:09 +0000

Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
“Lucrece,” l. 790 (1594)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 57ff (1.1.57-58) (1602?)

Dave — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:06:50 +0000

LAFEW: 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, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 57ff (1.1.57-58) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 66ff (1.1.66-67)(1602?)

Dave — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:30:00 +0000

COUNTESS: Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 66ff (1.1.66-67)(1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 89ff (1.1.89-97) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:41:51 +0000

HELENA: There is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. ’Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me.
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Th’ ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 89ff (1.1.89-97) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 222ff (1.1.222-223) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:38:28 +0000

HELENA: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 222ff (1.1.222-223) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 28ff (1.3.28-31) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:32:16 +0000

COUNTESS: Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.

FOOL: My poor body, madam, requires it. I am driven on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil drives.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 28ff (1.3.28-31) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 160ff (2.1.160-162) (1602?)

Dave — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:08:14 +0000

HELENA: Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 160ff (2.1.160-162) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 134ff (2.3.134-137) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:11:55 +0000

COUNTESS: It is the show and seal of nature’s truth,
Where love’s strong passion is impress’d in youth:
By our remembrances of days foregone,
Such were our faults; — or then we thought them none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 134ff (2.3.134-137) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 136ff (2.3.136-137) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:07:27 +0000

KING: From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer’s deed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 136ff (2.3.136-137) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 13 (3.5.13) (1602?)

Dave — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:39:15 +0000

MARIANA: 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, l. 13 (3.5.13) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 73ff (4.3.73-74) (1602?)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

FIRST LORD: 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, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 73ff (4.3.73-74) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 356ff (4.3.356-358) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:54:08 +0000

PAROLLES: Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this; for it will come to pass
That every braggart shall be found an ass.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 356ff (4.3.356-358) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 39ff (4.4.39-40) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:36:51 +0000

HELENA: All’s well that ends well. Still the fine’s the crown.
Whate’er the course, the end is the renown.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 39ff (4.4.39-40) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 48ff (5.3.48-50) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:41:50 +0000

KING OF FRANCE: For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
Th’ inaudible and noiseless foot of time
Steals ere we can effect them.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 48ff (5.3.48-50) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 360ff (5.3.360-361) (1602?)

Dave — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:27:54 +0000

BERTRAM: If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,
I’ll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 360ff (5.3.360-361) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 378ff (5.3.378-379) (1602?)

Dave — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:02:17 +0000

KING: All yet seems well, and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 378ff (5.3.378-379) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, ll. 147ff (5.3.147) (1602?)

Dave — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:47:02 +0000

KING: I am wrapp’d in dismal thinkings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, ll. 147ff (5.3.147) (1602?)
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Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 7ff (2.1.7-10) (1607)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

MENAS: We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 7ff (2.1.7-10) (1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 276ff (2.2.276-279) (1607)

Dave — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:43:54 +0000

ENOBARBUS: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety; other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 276ff (2.2.276-279) (1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 94ff (2.5.94-96) (1607)

Dave — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:16:35 +0000

CHARMIAN: Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.
The man is innocent.

CLEOPATRA: Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 94ff (2.5.94-96) (1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, sc. 13, ll. 240ff (3.13.240-241) (1607)

Dave — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:59:59 +0000

ENOBARBUS: When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, sc. 13, ll. 240ff (3.13.240-241) (1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 27ff (4.4.27-28) (1607)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

ANTONY: To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 27ff (4.4.27-28) (1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 11ff (1.3.11-12) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

ROSALIND:O,
how full of briers is this working-day world!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 11ff (1.3.11-12) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 12ff (2.1.12-14) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:04:38 +0000

DUKE SENIOR: Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 12ff (2.1.12-14) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 53ff (2.4.53) (1599)

Dave — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:48:55 +0000

TOUCHSTONE: We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 53ff (2.4.53) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 99ff (2.7.99-101) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:27:12 +0000

ORLANDO:The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta’en from me the show
Of smooth civility.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 99ff (2.7.99-101) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 142ff (2.7.142-145) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

DUKE SENIOR: Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
This wide and universal theater
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 142ff (2.7.142-145) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 146ff (2.7.146-149) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

JAQUES:All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 146ff (2.7.146-149) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 149ff (2.7.149-173) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:32:54 +0000

JAQUES: [O]ne man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 149ff (2.7.149-173) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 135 (4.3.135) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

OLIVER: Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 135 (4.3.135) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 30ff (5.1.30-32) (1599)

Dave — Wed, 12 May 2004 21:40:00 +0000

TOUCHSTONE: I do now remember a saying, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 30ff (5.1.30-32) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 45ff (5.2.45) (1599)

Dave — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:03:10 +0000

ORLANDO: But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 45ff (5.2.45) (1599)
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Shakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 34ff (2.1.34-37) (1594)

Dave — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:42:15 +0000

ADRIANA: A wretched soul bruised with adversity
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry,
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Comedy of Errors, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 34ff (2.1.34-37) (1594)
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Shakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 154ff (3.1.154-155) (1594)

Dave — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:05:05 +0000

BALTHASAR: For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housèd where it gets possession.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Comedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 154ff (3.1.154-155) (1594)
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To Antipholus of Ephesus.

Shakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 66ff (3.2.66-69) (1594)

Dave — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:36:06 +0000

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE: It is thyself, mine own self’s better part,
Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart,
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim,
My sole Earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Comedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 66ff (3.2.66-69) (1594)
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To Luciana.

Shakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 21ff (4.2.21-24) (1594)

Dave — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:21:59 +0000

ADRIANA: He is deformèd, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere,
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Comedy of Errors, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 21ff (4.2.21-24) (1594)
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Shakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 65ff (4.3.65-66) (1594)

Dave — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:52:26 +0000

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE: Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Comedy of Errors, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 65ff (4.3.65-66) (1594)
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The phrase was popularized by Shakespeare, but had appeared earlier, e.g., Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale," ll. 602-603, Canterbury Tales (c. 1386):

"Therfor bihoveth him a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend," thus herde I seye.

Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 21ff. (1.3.21) (c. 1608)

Dave — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:41:57 +0000

VOLUMNIA: Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Martius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 21ff. (1.3.21) (c. 1608)
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"Voluptuously surfeit out of action" = to die indulgent, idle, and lazy

Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 5ff (2.2.5-15) (c. 1608)

Dave — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:00:44 +0000

FIRST OFFICER: That’s a brave fellow, but he’s vengeance proud and loves not the common people.

SECOND OFFICER: ’Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them; and there be many that they have loved they know not wherefore; so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better a ground. Therefore, for Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition and, out of his noble carelessness, lets them plainly see ’t.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 5ff (2.2.5-15) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 10 (2.3.10) (c. 1608)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

THIRD CITIZEN: Ingratitude is monstrous.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 10 (2.3.10) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 68ff (2.4.68-69) (c. 1608)

Dave — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:36:50 +0000

VOLUMNIA: Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 68ff (2.4.68-69) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 326ff (3.1.326-331) (c. 1608)

Dave — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:20:48 +0000

MENENIUS: His nature is too noble for the world.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident
Or Jove for ‘s power to thunder. His heart’s his mouth;
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent,
And, being angry, does forget that ever
He heard the name of death.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 326ff (3.1.326-331) (c. 1608)
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Speaking of the title character.

Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 23ff (3.2.23-24) (c. 1607)

Dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:32:18 +0000

VOLUMNIA: You might have been enough the man you are
With striving less to be so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 23ff (3.2.23-24) (c. 1607)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 95 (3.2.95) (c. 1608)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

VOLUMNIA: Action is eloquence.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 95 (3.2.95) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 244ff (4.5.244-249) (c. 1608)

Dave — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:28:37 +0000

FIRST SERVINGMAN: Let me have war, say I. It exceeds peace as far as day does night. It’s sprightly walking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 244ff (4.5.244-249) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 38ff (5.3.38-41) (c. 1608)

Dave — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:56:53 +0000

CORIOLANUS:I’ll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct; but stand,
As if a man were author of himself,
And knew no other kin.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 38ff (5.3.38-41) (c. 1608)
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Shakespeare, William -- Cymbeline, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 97ff (1.1.97-99) (1611)

Dave — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:52:03 +0000

IMOGEN:O,
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
Can tickle where she wounds!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 97ff (1.1.97-99) (1611)
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Shakespeare, William -- Cymbeline, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 331ff (3.2.331-336) (1611)

Dave — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 17:58:08 +0000

GUIDERIUS: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 331ff (3.2.331-336) (1611)
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Shakespeare, William -- Cymbeline, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 14ff (4.2.14-15) (1611)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

IMOGEN: Society is not comfort
To one not sociable.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 14ff (4.2.14-15) (1611)
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Shakespeare, William -- Cymbeline, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 54 (4.3.54) (1611)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

PISANIO: Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 54 (4.3.54) (1611)
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Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 201ff (1.1.201-204) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HORATIO: Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear, till I may deliver
Upon the witness of these gentlemen
This marvel to you.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 201ff (1.1.201-204) (c. 1600)
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Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 50ff (1.3.50-55) (c. 1600)

Dave — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:18:35 +0000

OPHELIA:But, good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 50ff (1.3.50-55) (c. 1600)
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Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 68ff [Polonius] (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:44:28 +0000

POLONIUS: Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 68ff [Polonius] (c. 1600)
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Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 84ff (1.3.84-86) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

POLONIUS: This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 84ff (1.3.84-86) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 113ff (1.5.113-115) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HAMLET: O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
My tables — meet it is I set it down
That one may smile and smile and be a villain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 113ff (1.5.113-115) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 187ff (1.5.187-188) (c. 1600)

Dave — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:34:52 +0000

HAMLET: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 187ff (1.5.187-188) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 97 (2.2.97) (c. 1600)

Dave — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:10:00 +0000

POLONIUS: Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 97 (2.2.97) (c. 1600)
(Source)

In full, from the least brief-speaking character in the play:

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief ...."

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 124ff (2.2.124-127) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:53:38 +0000

HAMLET: Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 124ff (2.2.124-127) (c. 1600)
(Source)

A letter from Hamlet to Ophelia, read by Polonius.

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 223 (2.2.223) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

POLONIUS: Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 223 (2.2.223) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 268ff (2.2.268) (c. 1600)

Dave — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:31:20 +0000

HAMLET: For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 268ff (2.2.268) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 366ff (2.2.366) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

ROSENCRANTZ: Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 366ff (2.2.366) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 555ff (2.2.555) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:32:38 +0000

HAMLET: Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 555ff (2.2.555) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 84ff (3.1.84-90) (c. 1600)

Dave — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:45 +0000

HAMLET:Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 84ff (3.1.84-90) (c. 1600)
(Source)

"Fardels" = "burdens"

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 91ff (3.1.91-96) (c. 1600)

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:09:20 +0000

HAMLET: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 91ff (3.1.91-96) (c. 1600)
(Source)

"Conscience" in this case is used in its archaic form, as consciousness, awareness.

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 147ff (3.1.147-148) (c. 1600)

Dave — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:44:27 +0000

HAMLET: Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 147ff (3.1.147-148) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 203ff (3.1.203) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:59:57 +0000

KING: Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 203ff (3.1.203) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, ll. 108 (3.1.109-110) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:36:36 +0000

OPHELIA:Their perfume lost,
Take these again, for to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 3, sc. 1, ll. 108 (3.1.109-110) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Returning to Hamlet gifts he gave her in the past.

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 6ff (4.1.6-8) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:29:39 +0000

KING: What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?

QUEEN: Mad as the sea and wind when both contend
Which is the mightier.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 6ff (4.1.6-8) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 48ff (4.5.48-49) (c. 1600)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

OPHELIA: Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 48ff (4.5.48-49) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 84ff (4.5.84-85) (c. 1600)

Dave — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:53:11 +0000

CLAUDIUS: When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 84ff (4.5.84-85) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 11ff (5.2.11-12) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:48:55 +0000

HAMLET: There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will —

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 11ff (5.2.11-12) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 234ff (5.2.234) (c. 1600)

Dave — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:54:22 +0000

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, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 234ff (5.2.234) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 304 (5.2.304) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:50:40 +0000

OSRIC: A hit, a very palpable hit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 304 (5.2.304) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 389ff (5.2.389-395) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:49:57 +0000

HAMLET: O, I die, Horatio!
The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England.
But I do prophesy th’ election lights
On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited — the rest is silence.
[Dies.]

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 389ff (5.2.389-395) (c. 1600)
(Source)

Just before Fortinbras and the English ambassadors enter.

In the First Folio, Hamlet moans, "O, O, O, O!" just before dying.

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 396ff (5.2.396-397) (c. 1600)

Dave — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:32:26 +0000

HORATIO: Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 396ff (5.2.396-397) (c. 1600)
(Source)

After Hamlet's death words.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 94ff (1.2.94) (1597)

Dave — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:45:58 +0000

HAL: Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 94ff (1.2.94) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 211ff (1.2.211-212) (1597)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HAL: If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work,
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 211ff (1.2.211-212) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 55ff (3.1.55-57) (1597)

Dave — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:24:28 +0000

GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 55ff (3.1.55-57) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 122ff (4.4.122) (1597)

Dave — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:32:16 +0000

FALSTAFF: The better part of valour is discretion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 122ff (4.4.122) (1597)
(Source)

Today it is usually phrased "Discretion is the better part of valor."

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 24 (5.1.24-26) (1597)

Dave — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:57:12 +0000

WORCESTER: For mine own part I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 24 (5.1.24-26) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 121 (5.1.121) (1597)

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:06:37 +0000

HENRY: God befriend us as our cause is just.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 121 (5.1.121) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 148 (5.4.148) (1597)

Dave — Wed, 12 May 2004 19:37:42 +0000

FALSTAFF: Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 148 (5.4.148) (1597)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 9ff (1.2.9-11) (c. 1598)

Dave — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:15:18 +0000

FALSTAFF: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 9ff (1.2.9-11) (c. 1598)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 112ff (1.3.112-113) (c. 1598)

Dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:28:41 +0000

ARCHBISHOP:O thoughts of men accursed!
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 112ff (1.3.112-113) (c. 1598)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 26ff (3.1.26-31) (c. 1598)

Dave — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:33:15 +0000

HENRY: Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 26ff (3.1.26-31) (c. 1598)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 94ff (3.1.94-95) (c. 1598)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HENRY: Are these things then necessities?
Then let us meet them like necessities.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 94ff (3.1.94-95) (c. 1598)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry IV, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 60ff (5.5.60-62) (c. 1598)

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:57:10 +0000

HAL: Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know — so shall the world perceive —
That I have turn’d away my former self.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 60ff (5.5.60-62) (c. 1598)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 1, Prologue (1599)

Dave — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:48:32 +0000

CHORUS: O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 1, Prologue (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 63 (1.1.63) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

BISHOP OF ELY: The strawberry grows underneath the nettle.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 63 (1.1.63) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 80ff (2.4.80-81) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

DAUPHIN: Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 80ff (2.4.80-81) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 1ff (3.1.1-8) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:49:44 +0000

HENRY: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace, there’s nothing so becomes a man,
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 1ff (3.1.1-8) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 34ff (3.1.34-37) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:17:30 +0000

HENRY: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 34ff (3.1.34-37) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 9ff (3.2.9-14) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:40:10 +0000

PISTOL: Knocks go and come. God’s vassals drop and die,
And sword and shield,
In bloody field,
Doth win immortal fame.

BOY: Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would
give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

PISTOL: And I.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 9ff (3.2.9-14) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 3ff (4.1.3-12) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HENRY: God almighty,
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out.
For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,
Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
Besides, they are our outward consciences
And preachers to us all, admonishing
That we should dress us fairly for our end.
Thus may we gather honey from the weed
And make a moral of the devil himself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 3ff (4.1.3-12) (1599)
(Source)

See Spencer.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 80ff (4.1.80-83) (1599)

Dave — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:50:56 +0000

FLUELLEN: If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience now?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 80ff (4.1.80-83) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 182ff (4.1.182-183) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:41:04 +0000

HENRY: Every subject’s duty is the king’s; but every subject’s soul is his own.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 182ff (4.1.182-183) (1599)
(Source)

Eschewing responsibility for his soldiers dying with unconfessed sins.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 37ff (4.3.37-42) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 07 May 2018 16:08:48 +0000

HENRY: Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company,
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 37ff (4.3.37-42) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 58ff (4.3.58-69) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:19:28 +0000

HENRY: This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d, —
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me,
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,
Shall think themselves accurs’d, they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks,
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 58ff (4.3.58-69) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 19ff (4.5.19-25) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:43:28 +0000

CONSTABLE: Disorder, that hath spoiled us, friend us now.
Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.

ORLÉANS: We are enough yet living in the field
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.

BOURBON: The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 19ff (4.5.19-25) (1599)
(Source)

The French dealing with the disastrous rout of their initial attack at Agincourt.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 3ff (5.1.3) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

FLUELLEN: There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 3ff (5.1.3) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 164ff (5.2.164) (1599)

Dave — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:55:14 +0000

HENRY: A speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a ballad, 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. If thou would have such a one, take me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 164ff (5.2.164) (1599)
(Source)

Quoted by Walter Mondale as a eulogy for Hubert Humphrey.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 31ff (3.1.31-33) (1591)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

MARGARET: Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 31ff (3.1.31-33) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 240ff (3.2.240-243) (1591)

Dave — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:13:10 +0000

HENRY: What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 240ff (3.2.240-243) (1591)
(Source)

See Ward.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 3, l. 30ff (3.3.30-31) (1591)

Dave — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:07:15 +0000

WARWICK: So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
HENRY: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 3, l. 30ff (3.3.30-31) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, sc. 7, l. 73ff (4.7.73-74) (1591)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

SAYE: Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, sc. 7, l. 73ff (4.7.73-74) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 186ff (5.1.186-187) (1591)

Dave — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:58:14 +0000

SALISBURY: It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 186ff (5.1.186-187) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 55 (2.5.55) (1591)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

SON: Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, sc. 5, l. 55 (2.5.55) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 21ff (3.5.21-41) (1591)

Dave — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:49:49 +0000

KING HENRY: O God! Methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain,
To sit upon a hill as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
How many makes the hour full complete,
How many hours brings about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.
When this is known, then to divide the times:
So many hours must I tend my flock,
So many hours must I take my rest,
So many hours must I contemplate,
So many hours must I sport myself,
So many days my ewes have been with young,
So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
So many years ere I shall shear the fleece;
So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Passed over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this! How sweet, how lovely!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 21ff (3.5.21-41) (1591)
(Source)

"Ean" means to give birth to lambs.

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 42ff (3.5.42-45) (1591)

Dave — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:04:45 +0000

KING HENRY: Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep
Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 42ff (3.5.42-45) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 39ff (4.6.39) (1591)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

HENRY: Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 39ff (4.6.39) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, sc. 8, l. 7ff (4.8.7-8) (1590)

Dave — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:00:47 +0000

CLARENCE: A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, sc. 8, l. 7ff (4.8.7-8) (1590)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VI, Part 3, Act 5, sc. 6, l. 11ff (5.6.11-12) (1591)

Dave — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 01:56:59 +0000

RICHARD: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 5, sc. 6, l. 11ff (5.6.11-12) (1591)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VIII, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 168ff (1.1.168-169) (1613)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

NORFOLK: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VIII, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 168ff (1.1.168-169) (1613)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VIII, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 27ff (2.3.27-28) (1613)

Dave — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:49:31 +0000

OLD LADY: Our content
Is our best having.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VIII, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 27ff (2.3.27-28) (1613)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VIII, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 44 (3.1.44) (1613)

Dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:04:06 +0000

KATHERINE: Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VIII, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 44 (3.1.44) (1613)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Henry VIII, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 195ff (3.2.195-197) (1613)

Dave — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:53:39 +0000

KING: ’Tis well said again,
And ’tis a kind of good deed to say well.
And yet words are no deeds.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VIII, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 195ff (3.2.195-197) (1613)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 142ff (1.2.142-148) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

CASSIUS: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 142ff (1.2.142-148) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 202ff (1.2.202-205) (1599)

Dave — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:56:15 +0000

CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights:
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 202ff (1.2.202-205) (1599)
(Source)

See Plutarch.

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 19ff (2.1.19-20) (1599)

Dave — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:05:26 +0000

BRUTUS: The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Remorse from power.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 19ff (2.1.19-20) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 34ff (2.2.34-39) (1599)

Dave — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:02:56 +0000

CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 34ff (2.2.34-39) (1599)
(Source)

The initial phrase has seemingly morphed in the retelling, though still being cited to Shakespeare: "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." This is the form most often seen, but is not Shakespeare.

In A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway gives another paraphrase: "The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one." This, too, sometimes gets modified to make it scan better, e.g., "A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave dies only once."

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 84ff (3.2.84-85) (1599)

Dave — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:31:42 +0000

ANTONY: The evil men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 84ff (3.2.84-85) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 188ff (3.2.188-195) (1599)

Dave — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:16:55 +0000

ANTONY: Through this the well-belovèd Brutus stabbed,
And, as he plucked his cursèd steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it,
As rushing out of doors to be resolved
If Brutus so unkindly knocked or no;
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel.
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 188ff (3.2.188-195) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 23ff (4.2.23-24) (1599)

Dave — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:23:33 +0000

BRUTUS: When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 23ff (4.2.23-24) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 249ff (4.3.249-255) (1599)

Dave — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:43:51 +0000

BRUTUS: There is a tide in the affairs of men
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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 249ff (4.3.249-255) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 133ff (5.1.133-136) (1599)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

BRUTUS: O, that a man might know
The end of this day’s business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 133ff (5.1.133-136) (1599)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King John, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 82 (2.1.82) (1596)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

AUSTRIA: For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 82 (2.1.82) (1596)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King John, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 621ff (2.1.621-624) (1596)

Dave — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:27:45 +0000

THE BASTARD: Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice, but beggary.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 621ff (2.1.621-624) (1596)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King John, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 30ff (4.2.30-34) (1596)

Dave — Wed, 12 May 2004 19:34:55 +0000

PEMBROKE: And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by th’ excuse,
As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patched.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 30ff (4.2.30-34) (1596)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 103ff (1.1.103-104) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:10:30 +0000

LEAR: Mend your speech a little,
Lest you may mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 103ff (1.1.103-104) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 136 (1.1.136) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:37:00 +0000

LEAR: Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 136 (1.1.136) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 109ff (1.2.109-121) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:20:54 +0000

GLOUCESTER: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction: there’s son against father. The King falls from bias of nature: there’s father against child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 109ff (1.2.109-121) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 118ff (1.2.118-121) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:36:28 +0000

GLOUCESTER: We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 118ff (1.2.118-121) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 125ff (1.2.125) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

EDMUND: 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, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 125ff (1.2.125) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 270ff (1.4.270-272) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:35:18 +0000

LEAR: Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 270ff (1.4.270-272) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 302ff (1.4.302-303) (1606)

Dave — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:01:58 +0000

LEAR: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 302ff (1.4.302-303) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

ALBANY: Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 369 (1.4.369) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 11ff (2.2.11-24) (1606)

Dave — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:36:52 +0000

OSWALD: Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.

KENT: Fellow, I know thee.

OSWALD: What dost thou know me for?

KENT: 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 whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, 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, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 11ff (2.2.11-24) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 188 (2.2.188) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:28:25 +0000

KENT: Fortune, good-night. Smile once more; turn thy wheel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 188 (2.2.188) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 84ff (2.4.84-91) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:51:39 +0000

FOOL: That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack when it begins to rain
And leave thee in the storm.
But I will tarry; the Fool will stay,
And let the wise man fly.
The knave turns fool that runs away;
The Fool, no knave, perdy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 84ff (2.4.84-91) (1606)
(Source)

Perdie, perdy: "by God" (from the French par Dieu].

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 321ff (2.4.321-323) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:54:11 +0000

LEAR: I will do such things —
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the Earth!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 321ff (2.4.321-323) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 1ff (3.2.1-11) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:15:36 +0000

LEAR: Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks.
You sulph’rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head. And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world.
Crack nature’s molds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 1ff (3.2.1-11) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 62ff (3.2.62-63) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:23:37 +0000

LEAR: I am a man
More sinned against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 62ff (3.2.62-63) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 81ff (3.2.81-84) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:04:51 +0000

FOOL: He that has and a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 81ff (3.2.81-84) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 24ff (3.4.24-25) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:23:32 +0000

LEAR: O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;
No more of that.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 24ff (3.4.24-25) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 151 (3.4.151) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:39:50 +0000

EDGAR: The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 151 (3.4.151) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 195ff (3.4.195-197) (1606)

Dave — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:39:39 +0000

EDGAR: Childe Rowland to the dark tower came,
His word was still “Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 195ff (3.4.195-197) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 27ff (4.1.27-31) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:17:26 +0000

EDGAR: O gods, who is ‘t can say “I am at the worst”?
I am worse than e’er I was. […]
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not,
So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 27ff (4.1.27-31) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 41ff (4.1.41-42) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:13:41 +0000

GLOUCESTER: As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods;
They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 41ff (4.1.41-42) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 39ff (4.2.39-40) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:57:08 +0000

ALBANY: You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 39ff (4.2.39-40) (1606)
(Source)

Speaking to Goderil.

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 47ff (4.2.47-48) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

ALBANY: Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
Filths savor but themselves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 47ff (4.2.47-48) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 129ff (4.6.129-132) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:51:35 +0000

LEAR: I pardon that man’s life. What was thy cause? —
Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No.
The wren goes to ‘t, and the small gilded fly does
lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 129ff (4.6.129-132) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 180ff (4.6.180-183) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

LEAR: Through tattered clothes small vices do appear.
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 180ff (4.6.180-183) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 200ff (4.6.200-201) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:01:06 +0000

LEAR: When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 6, l. 200ff (4.6.200-201) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 4, sc. 7, l. 68ff (4.7.68-72) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:52:50 +0000

LEAR: Pray do not mock:
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less,
And to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 4, sc. 7, l. 68ff (4.7.68-72) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 35ff (5.3.35-37) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

EDGAR: Know thou this: that men
Are as the time is; to be tender-minded
Does not become a sword.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 35ff (5.3.35-37) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 83 (5.3.83) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

REGAN: Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 83 (5.3.83) (1606)
(Source)

Frequently misattributed (with "often" for "oft") to Joseph Addison.

Shakespeare, William -- King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 204ff (5.3.204-205) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:47:32 +0000

EDGAR: The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King Lear, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 204ff (5.3.204-205) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 15ff (5.2.15-19) (c. 1595)

Dave — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:10:56 +0000

KATHERINE: He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy,
And so she died. Had she been light like you,
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha’ been a grandam ere she died.
And so may you, for a light heart lives long.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, sc. 2, l. 15ff (5.2.15-19) (c. 1595)
(Source)

To Rosaline.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-8) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:12:25 +0000

FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH: When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.

THIRD WITCH: That will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH: Where’s the place?

SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH: There to meet with Macbeth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-8) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 12ff (1.1.12-13) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:55:52 +0000

ALL WITCHES: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 12ff (1.1.12-13) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 61ff (1.3.61-64) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:14:13 +0000

BANQUO: If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 61ff (1.3.61-64) (1606)
(Source)

To the Witches (Weïrd Sisters).

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 135ff (1.3.135-138) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:07:05 +0000

BANQUO: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s
In deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 135ff (1.3.135-138) (1606)
(Source)

Speaking to Macbeth of the Weïrd Sisters (witches).

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 158ff (1.3.158-159) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:41:51 +0000

MACBETH: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
Without my stir.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 158ff (1.3.158-159) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 8ff (1.4.8-12) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:16:58 +0000

MALCOLM: Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it. He died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ’twere a careless trifle.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 8ff (1.4.8-12) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 57ff (1.4.57-58) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:28:19 +0000

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

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 57ff (1.4.57-58) (1606)

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 47ff (1.5.47-61) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:44:21 +0000

LADY MACBETH:Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
To cry “Hold, hold!”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 47ff (1.5.47-61) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 75ff (1.5.75-76) (1606)

Dave — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:30:05 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ‘t.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 75ff (1.5.75-76) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 7, l. 1ff (1.7.1-2) (1606)

Dave — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:09:27 +0000

MACBETH: If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 7, l. 1ff (1.7.1-2) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 7, l. 68ff (1.7.68-71) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:32:14 +0000

MACBETH: If we should fail —

LADY MACBETH: We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 1, sc. 7, l. 68ff (1.7.68-71) (1606)
(Source)

The sticking-place on a crossbow was where the bowstring was screwed or wound to prior to its bolt being shot.

The line was most famously revived by Howard Ashman in the lyrics to "The Mob Song [Kill the Beast]" in Beauty and the Beast (1991). Lin-Manuel Miranda also included the line (amidst many other Macbeth references) in Hamilton (2015), in the song "Take a Break."

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 44ff (2.1.44-53) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:47:28 +0000

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 44ff (2.1.44-53) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 48ff (2.2.48-52) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:12:00 +0000

MACBETH:The innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 48ff (2.2.48-52) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 66ff (2.2.66-67) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:55:20 +0000

MACBETH: I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 66ff (2.2.66-67) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 78ff (2.2.78-81) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:38:20 +0000

MACBETH: Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 78ff (2.2.78-81) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 27ff (2.3.27-38) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:39:26 +0000

PORTER: Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

MACDUFF: What three things does drink especially provoke?

PORTER: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
Lechery, sir, 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;
it persuades him, and disheartens him;
makes him stand to, and not stand to;
in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep,
and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 3, l. 27ff (2.3.27-38) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 121ff (3.1.121-128) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:58:08 +0000

SECOND MURDERER: I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incensed that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.

FIRST MURDERER: And I another,
So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on ‘t.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 121ff (3.1.121-128) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 6ff (3.2.6-9) (1606)

Dave — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:26:11 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Naught’s had, all’s spent,
Where our desire is got without content.
‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 6ff (3.2.6-9) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 13ff [Lady Macbeth] (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what’s done is done.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 13ff [Lady Macbeth] (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 58ff (3.2.58-60) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:05:55 +0000

MACBETH: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 58ff (3.2.58-60) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 152 (3.4.152) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:50:04 +0000

MACBETH: It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 3, sc. 4, l. 152 (3.4.152) (1606)
(Source)

To Lady Macbeth.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 10ff (4.1.10-11) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:02:30 +0000

ALL WITCHES: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 10ff (4.1.10-11) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 44ff (4.1.44-45) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 44ff (4.1.44-45) (1606)
(Source)

Often misquoted as "prickling."

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 90ff (4.1.90-92) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:10:25 +0000

SECOND APPARITION: Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 90ff (4.1.90-92) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 4ff (4.2.4-5) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:03:00 +0000

LADY MACDUFF:When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 4ff (4.2.4-5) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 81ff (4.2.81-85) (1606)

Dave — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:17:58 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 81ff (4.2.81-85) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 27ff (4.3.27-30) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:39:29 +0000

MALCOLM: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 27ff (4.3.27-30) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 33ff (4.3.33-34) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

MALCOLM: Wife and child,
Those precious motives, those strong knots of love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 33ff (4.3.33-34) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 49ff (4.3.49-51) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:41:13 +0000

MALCOLM: I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 49ff (4.3.49-51) (1606)
(Source)

Speaking with Macduff on the tyranny and bloodshed unleashed by Macbeth.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 246ff (4.3.246-247) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

MALCOLM: Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 246ff (4.3.246-247) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 252ff (4.3.252-261) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:21:55 +0000

MALCOLM: Be comforted.
Let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge,
To cure this deadly grief.

MACDUFF: He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say “all”? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?

MALCOLM: Dispute it like a man.

MACDUFF: I shall do so,
But I must also feel it as a man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 252ff (4.3.252-261) (1606)
(Source)

Macduff, learning his family and household have been killed on Macbeth's orders.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 268ff (4.3.268-269) (1606)

Dave — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:30:28 +0000

MALCOLM: Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief
Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 4, sc. 3, l. 268ff (4.3.268-269) (1606)
(Source)

To Macduff, after Macbeth's killers have murdered Macduff's family.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 37ff (5.1.37-42) (1606)

Dave — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:36:40 +0000

LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two. Why then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 37ff (5.1.37-42) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 71 (5.1.71) (1606)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

LADY MACBETH: What’s done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 71 (5.1.71) (1606)
(Source)

See previously.

Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 50ff (5.3.50-58) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:29:56 +0000

MACBETH: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?

DOCTOR:Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.

MACBETH: Throw physic to the dogs. I’ll none of it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 50ff (5.3.50-58) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 22ff (5.5.22-31) (1606)

Dave — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:51:04 +0000

MACBETH: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 22ff (5.5.22-31) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 8, l. 15ff (5.8.15-22) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:30:08 +0000

MACBETH: I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.

MACDUFF: Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.

MACBETH: Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 8, l. 15ff (5.8.15-22) (1606)
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Shakespeare, William -- Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 8, l. 38ff (5.8.38-39) (1606)

Dave — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:26:31 +0000

MACBETH: Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries “Hold! Enough!”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 5, sc. 8, l. 38ff (5.8.38-39) (1606)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Measure for Measure, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 85ff (1.4.85-87) (1604)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

LUCIO: Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 1, sc. 4, l. 85ff (1.4.85-87) (1604)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Measure for Measure, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 18ff (2.1.18-19) (1604)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

ANGELO: ‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 18ff (2.1.18-19) (1604)
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Shakespeare, William -- Measure for Measure, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 135ff (2.2.135-137) (1604)

Dave — Wed, 12 May 2004 19:14:11 +0000

ISABELLA:O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 135ff (2.2.135-137) (1604)
(Source)

Shakespeare, William -- Measure for Measure, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 2ff (3.1.2-3) (1604)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

CLAUDIO: The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 2ff (3.1.2-3) (1604)
(Source)