“Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Source: The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...
“Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
Source: A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
“O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.”
“Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”
Source: King Lear
“It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.”
Source: A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions
“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”
Source: Poems and Plays
“O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!”
Source: Hamlet. Timon of Athens
Source: Twelfth Night
“O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
Source: The Great Comedies and Tragedies
“We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.”
Source: A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage
“My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.”
Source: Works, Complete: From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H.N. Hudson
“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition
“Foul whisp'rings are abroad.”
Source: Macbeth
“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play
“Great griefs medicine the less.”
Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy--delineations of Character--paintings of Nature and the Passions--one Thousand Aphorisms--and Miscellaneous Pieces
“Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“None can cure their harms by wailing them.”
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
“The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.”
“He must needs go that the devil drives.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
Source: Hamlet