“Is not the truth the truth?”
Source: The First Part of King Henry IV
“As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue”
Source: Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli
“The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.”
Source: King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition
“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.”
Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes
“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought”
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.”
“Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?”
Source: Hamlet
“If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.”
Source: The First Part of King Henry IV
“What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?”
Source: King Henry V
“O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!”
Source: The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price
“They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.”
Source: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Small things make base men proud.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.”
“A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.”
“You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.”
“Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6
“"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.”
“The devil is a gentleman.”
“But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”
Source: Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“There's nothing in this world can make me joy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”
Source: Henry the Sixth, Part Three
“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I'll note you in my book of memory.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”
“A table-full of welcome!”
Source: Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series
“But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.”
Source: Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis
“Speak comfortable words.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.”
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
“Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes
“Appetite, a universal wolf.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?”
“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”
“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.”
Source: The Sonnets
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.”
“Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.”
Source: Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet
“...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
Source: Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night