“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others
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Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Source: As You Like it
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
Source: Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
“God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”
“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry”
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
Source: King Lear
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.”
“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
Source: Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
“This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”
Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.”
Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will
Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary. Index. List of the various readings
“O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
Source: King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
Source: Hamlet
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].
“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”
“Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”
Source: The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].