“To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
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“That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard
“O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1
“I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.”
Source: Julius Caesar: Third Series
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
Source: Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar
“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”
Source: King Lear
Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.”
Source: The Tempest
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.”
Source: Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for Performance and Analysis
Source: King Richard III
“I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.”
“I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.”
Source: King Richard III
“My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“A very little little let us do And all is done.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?”
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: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.”
Source: Hamlet
“I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.”
Source: Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“Every offense is not a hate at first.”
Source: Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night
“Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“I hope to see London once ere I die.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
Source: Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1
“My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_
“By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
“I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.”
Source: The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, 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
Source: As You Like it