William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes
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''Then how can it be said I am alone
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc. 1, l. 225-6. Her world is Demetrius, with whom she is alone.
When all the world is here to look on me?'' -
''There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.''
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 1, sc. 3, l. 369-70. -
''Motley's the only wear.''
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Jaques, in As You Like It, act 2, sc. 7, l. 34. Motley was the costume of a professional fool. -
''That title of respect
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 1, sc. 3, l. 8-9.
Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.'' -
''The treasury of everlasting joy.''
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 2, sc. 1, l. 18. Henry's formula for heaven. -
''Things without all remedy
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 3, sc. 2, l. 11-2. "Be without regard" means not be brooded on.
Should be without regard: what's done is done.'' -
''How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lear, in King Lear, act 1, sc. 4, l. 268-9 (1623).
To have a thankless child.'' -
''Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lysander, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, sc. 1, l. 209-11. "Phoebe" is another name for Diana, goddess of the moon and of chastity; "watery glass" means mirror made by water.
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass.'' -
''Not in the legions
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Malcolm, in Macbeth, act 4, sc. 3, l. 55-7.
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned
To top Macbeth.'' -
''Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations.''
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Nerissa, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, l. 27-8. Defending the will made by Portia's father that restricts her choice in marriage.
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All The World's A Stage
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,
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 ...
Sonnet Lxxvii
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look, what thy memory can not contain