“Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...
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Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.”
Source: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale
“Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic
Source: The Sonnets and Narrative Poems
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.”
Source: Othello: Third Series
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.”
Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author
Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear. Hamlet. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.”
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
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In twenty-one volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added notes
“The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.”
Source: Henry IV
Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone : with a Life of the Poet
Source: King Henry V: Third Series
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton
“Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.”
Source: THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE
Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet
“The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it
“That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”
“Soft pity enters an iron gate.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton
Source: 3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.”
“I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.”
“Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.”
“Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.”
“God send everyone their heart's desire!”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Source: The works of William Shakespeare