“Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.”
Source: Shakspere's Play of Macbeth
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“Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary
“Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: The Dramatic Works
“In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes
“Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.”
“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.”
Source: Henry IV
“To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare ...
“As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”
“Be to yourself as you would to your friend.”
Source: Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus
“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.”
Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will
Source: Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”
“I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.”
“The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson, George Steevens, Esq., and Isaac Reed, Esq.; with Explanatory and Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, an Essay on His Writings, and a Literary and Historical Notice Prefixed to Each Play
“Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare