Quotations From WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Olivia, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 1, l. 156.
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O wonder!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Miranda, in The Tempest, act 5, sc. 1, l. 184-7 (1623). Prospero replies: "'Tis new to thee." Brave New World became the title of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel of 1932.
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
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O that I were a mockery king of snow,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Richard, in Richard II, act 4, sc. 1, l. 260. Humiliated in front of the whole court.
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
To melt myself away in water drops! -
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Sonnet 18, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (1609).
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Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Player King, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2, l. 213. On the gap between thoughts and deeds. -
When our actions do not,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lady Macduff, in Macbeth, act 4, sc. 2, l. 3-4.
Our fears do make us traitors. -
All hell shall stir for this.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Pistol, in Henry V, act 5, sc. 1, l. 68. On being forced by Fluellen to eat a leek. -
I am a villain. Yet I lie, I am not.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. King Richard III (V, iii). . . The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.
Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree,
Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree,
All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, "Guilty! Guilty!"
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
And if I die no soul will pity me.
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? -
In the quick forge and working-house of thought.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Chorus, in Henry V, act 5, prologue, l. 23. A fine image of the working of the imagination.
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Men may construe things after their fashion,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cicero, in Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 3, l. 34-5. "Construe" means interpret.
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
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