Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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Source: The Works of Shakespear: Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary
“The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.”
Source: Macbeth: Third Series
“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!”
Source: The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.
Source: The Second Part of King Henry IV
“Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
Source: The Life and Death of King John
“Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.”
Source: The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Nature's tears are reason's merriment.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy
“Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.”
Source: King John
“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”
Source: Hamlet
“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.”
Source: Henry V
“Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?”
“Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .”
Source: Poems and Plays
“The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.”
Source: Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)
Source: Tempest
“Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.”
Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations
“I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare ....: Richard III, ed. by A.H. Thompson
“Hardness ever of hardness is mother.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspere
Source: King Richard III
“Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!”
“How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.”
Source: The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...
“How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!”
Source: Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale