“Say as you think and speak it from your souls.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
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“Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
“So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.”
Source: King John
“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...
“The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”
Source: King Richard III
“Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.”
Source: As You Like it
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“Glory is like a circle in the water”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
Source: Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Source: Coriolanus
“Hereditary sloth instructs me.”
Source: The Tempest
“Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
“These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.”
Source: Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
Source: Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.”
Source: Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli
Source: The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
Source: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, ROMEO and JULIET. HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK. OTHELLO, the MOOR of VENICE. VOLUME the TENTH
“That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.”
Source: Shakespeare's Plays, with notes by H. Neele. With engraved plates
Source: King Richard III
“To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators
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
“Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!”
Source: The Two Noble Kinsmen
Source: Richard III
Source: Three Classical Tragedies
“What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works