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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.”
“Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.”
Source: Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.”
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
Source: King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series
“Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.”
Source: Henry VI, Part One
“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise”
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 little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.”
Source: King Henry VIII
“For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”
“The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.”
“Grief best is pleased with grief's society.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”
“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series
“Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.”
“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.”
Source: Macbeth
“Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.”
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
“There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.”
Source: The Life and Death of King John
“Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare...
“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”
“Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.”
Source: Othello: Third Series
“What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.”
Source: The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II
“What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.”
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
“An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.”
Source: An Essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare. By Mrs. Montagu. ... Second edition