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"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), British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 2, l. 241-4 (1623).
Referring to Cleopatra. |
"I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 119.
Realizing how much he has been fooled. |
"This is mere madness,
And thus a while the fit will work on him.
Anon, as patient as the female dove
When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
His silence will sit drooping."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Gertrude, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1, l. 284-8.
On Hamlet's changing moods; "golden couplets" means pair of baby birds with yellow down; "disclosed" means hatched. |
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Hamlet (I, v).
NAWM-1. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press. |
"'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2, l. 388-90. |
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hortensio, in The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, sc. 2, l. 41-2.
Deciding he does not want to marry Bianca. |
"I care not for you,
And am so near the lack of charity
To accuse myself I hate you; which I had rather
You felt than make't my boast."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Imogen, in Cymbeline, act 2, sc. 3, l. 108-11.
To the stupid Cloten, whom she detests. |
"Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 5, l. 22-4.
To her nurse, who is weary rather than sad; Juliet is anxious for news of Romeo. |
"O God, thy arm was here,
And not to us, but to thy arm alone
Ascribe we all."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry V, act 4, sc. 8, l. 106-8.
Ascribing his victory to God's help. |
"Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King of France, in All's Well That Ends Well, act 5, sc. 3, l. 19-20. |
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