“Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
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“Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost
“Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”
“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”
Source: Othello
“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.”
Source: Romeo & Juliet
Source: Timon of Athens
“I almost die for food, and let me have it!”
Source: As You Like it
“If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.”
Source: The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory Prefaces to Each Play ; Printed Complete from the Best Editions
“Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.”
“My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
Source: Tragedies. Poems
“All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.”
Source: King Richard III: Third Series
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's [!] Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes ...
“The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”
Source: The Tempest
Source: Coriolanus
“If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.”
Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads
“A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.”
Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...
“Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use”
Source: Cymbeline. Othello
Source: As You Like it
“Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.”
Source: The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes