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Autumn
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the
prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
William Shakespeare
Astronomy
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed
star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and
know not what they are.
William Shakespeare
Astrology
This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune
-- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters
the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by
heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical
predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his
goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare
Arts and Artists
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
William Shakespeare
Arts and Artists
O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare
Army and Navy
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood
with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his
condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed
they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that
fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
William Shakespeare
Army and Navy
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
William Shakespeare
Argument
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
Argument
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare
Argument
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,
the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof
Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with
Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
William Shakespeare
Appreciation
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord
hath done.
William Shakespeare
Antipathy
Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
William Shakespeare
Antipathy
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a
cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their
urine.
William Shakespeare
Anecdotes
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare
Business
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
William Shakespeare
Brevity
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
William Shakespeare
Bores and Boredom
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the
power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that
which you yourselves do know.
William Shakespeare
Books and Reading
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking
breast.
William Shakespeare
Birth
When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
Bills
I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
William Shakespeare
Bereavement
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William Shakespeare
Bed
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
William Shakespeare
Beauty
To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your
eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
Beauty
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass,
a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
William Shakespeare
Beards
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less
than a man.
William Shakespeare
Caution
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary
walking.
William Shakespeare
Caution
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
William Shakespeare
Censorship
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
Censorship
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
Censorship
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
Courage
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Shakespeare
Courage
I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
William Shakespeare
Courage
But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
Cost
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading
mansion spend?
William Shakespeare
Cosmetics
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
Corruption
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price
they will.
William Shakespeare
Cooperation
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare
Cooking
'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
Conversation
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection,
free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without
falsehood.
William Shakespeare
Contentment
My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian
stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that
seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
Contentment
He that is well paid is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
Conscience
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a
several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
William Shakespeare
Conscience
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
Conceit
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are
but beggars who can count their worth.
William Shakespeare
Conceit
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
William Shakespeare
Competition
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives
strength to your opponents.
William Shakespeare
Competition
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
Compassion
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
Company
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
William Shakespeare
Comedy and Comedians
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
William Shakespeare
Comedy and Comedians
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a
worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
William Shakespeare
Children
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
Children
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with
their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
Cheerfulness
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up
cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel
brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage
will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the
bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away
William Shakespeare
Cheating
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
William Shakespeare
Chastity
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill,
it eats dryly.
William Shakespeare
Charm
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me
medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
William Shakespeare
Character
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious
dear than life.
William Shakespeare
Character
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
Ceremony
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow
welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true
friendship, there needs none.
William Shakespeare
Coward and Cowardice
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Coward and Cowardice
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death
but once.
William Shakespeare
Cries and Crying
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred
thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
William Shakespeare
Crime and Criminals
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not
robbed at all.
William Shakespeare
Crisis
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it
right!
William Shakespeare
Danger
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
William Shakespeare
Danger
Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to
south.
William Shakespeare
Danger
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are
dangerous. [Julius Caesar]
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor
steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him
further.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and
imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after
them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is
all.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Death and Dying
The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]
William Shakespeare
Debt
He that dies pays all his debts.
William Shakespeare
Debt
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only
lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
William Shakespeare
Debt
Words pay no debts.
William Shakespeare
Decay
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be
eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to
hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
Deception
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as
hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
Delinquency
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will
swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest
sins the newest kind of ways?
William Shakespeare
Despair
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness,
comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare
Despair
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the
uses of this world!
William Shakespeare
Destiny
Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare
Devil
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
Devil
The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing
holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]
William Shakespeare
Diligence
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me
is diligence.
William Shakespeare
Dress
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
Dress
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not
gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say
what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded
with a sleep. [The Tempest]
William Shakespeare
Dreams
Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and
then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to
drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
William Shakespeare
Doubt
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Doubt
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing
to attempt.[Measure For Measure]
William Shakespeare
Doubt
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing
to attempt.[Measure For Measure]
William Shakespeare
Doubt
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and
then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to
drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
William Shakespeare
Dreams
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded
with a sleep. [The Tempest]
William Shakespeare
Dreams
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say
what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
William Shakespeare
Dress
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not
gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
Dress
The apparel oft proclaims the
man.
William Shakespeare
Explanations
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare
Experts
Good counselors lack no clients.
William Shakespeare
Excuses
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the
excuse.
William Shakespeare
Excellence
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in
covetousness.
William Shakespeare
Excellence
Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal
thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
William Shakespeare
Evil
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
Envy
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's
eyes.
William Shakespeare
Engineering
For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
William Shakespeare
Engagement
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner
loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the
reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these
degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb
incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
William Shakespeare
Endurance
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
William Shakespeare
Effort
Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
Fashion
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
William Shakespeare
Farewells
Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains.
Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
William Shakespeare
Family
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are
heaven's lieutenants.
William Shakespeare
Familiarity
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare
Fame
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a
great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
William Shakespeare
Fame
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
William Shakespeare
Fame
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though
not in life.
William Shakespeare
Fame
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
Faces
God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]
William Shakespeare
Faces
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
William Shakespeare
Faces
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
REPUTATION
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare
by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her:
Shakespeare and the Bible.
Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I
would say, as Shakespeare would say... “Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.”
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties
or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark
side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue - the same
liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which
we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.
David Wark Griffiths 1875-1948, American Pioneer Film Director
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them
down and you’re a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative
power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante
or Shakespeare.
Francis Herbert Hedge 1846-1924, British Philosopher
There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of
Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first
time in a log cabin.
Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote
poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and
earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job
well.
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner,
1964
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There’s a tremendous
corruptibility for the fiction writer because you’re dealing mainly with sex
and violence. These remain the basic themes, they’re the basic themes of
Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
Anthony Burgess 1917-1993, British Writer, Critic
When I heard the word “stream” uttered with such a revolting primness, what
I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn’t
new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much
too much in my opinion, and there’s Tristam Shandy, not to mention the
Agamemnon.
James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool
as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation
would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of
the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho,
of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte,
of anyone else I have read.
C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and
Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since
there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written
about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand
years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
William Faulkner 1897-1962, American Novelist
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon
the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very
important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming
to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you’re
the king.
Josephine Hull Actress
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite
of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves 1895-1985, British Poet, Novelist
Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a
movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to
do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was
when the creative mood in them would mark.
Carl Sandburg 1878-1967, American Poet
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare
writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington
arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a
discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into
battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous
race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to
fate!
Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20
players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of
that one. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more
skillful at casting them.
Gore Vidal
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation
and of Shakespeare everything.
William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Writer and Critic
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
WORKS
1588-1593 The Comedy of Errors
1588-1594 Love’s Labor’s Lost
1590-1591 2 Henry VI
1590-1591 3 Henry VI
1591-1592 1 Henry VI
1592-1593 Richard III
1592-1594 Titus Andronicus
1593-1594 The Taming of the Shrew
1593-1595 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1594-1596 Romeo and Juliet
1595 Richard II
1594-1596 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1596-1597 King John
I596-1597 The Merchant of Venice
1597 1 Henry IV
1597-1598 2 Henry IV
1598-1600 Much Ado About Nothing
1598-1599 Henry V
1599-1600 Julius Caesar
1599-1600 As You Like It
1599-1600 Twelfth Night
1600-1601 Hamlet
1597-1601 The Merry Wives of Windsor
1601-1602 Troilus and Cressida
1602-1604 All’s Well That Ends Well
1603-1604 Othello
1604-1605 Measure for Measure
1605-1606 King Lear
1605-1606 Macbeth
1606-1607 Antony and Cleopatra
1605-1608 Timon of Athens
1607-1609 Coriolanus
1608-1609 Pericles
1609-1610 Cymbeline
1610-1611 The Winter’s Tale
1611-1612 The Tempest
1612-1613 Henry VIII
POEMS
1592 Venus and Adonis
1593-1594 The Rape of Lucrece
1593-1600 Sonnets
1600-1601 The Phoenix and the Turtle
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