“False face must hide
what the false heart doth know.”
– William Shakespeare,MACBETH.
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William Shakespeare: Words without thoughts
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
—William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: Man, proud man
“But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.”
—William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: Not naturally honest
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
– William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: When we mean to build
“When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
and when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection
which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at least desist
To build at all?”
—William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part2, I.iii,1598.
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616).
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William Shakespeare: Time’s plague
“‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.”
—William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616) .
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William Shakespeare: Never doubt
”Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
—William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: Words
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. –William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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William Shakespeare: Lechery
“Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire but takes away the performance.”
~William Shakespeare in Macbeth.
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William Shakespeare: False quarrels
“In false quarrels there is no true valor.”
William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: Fond records
English: Birth place of William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, England. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records.”
~William Shakespeare in Hamlet (Act I, Scene 5, Line 98)Cover of Hamlet (Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare)
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William Shakespeare: Answers
The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This was long thought to be the only portrait of William Shakespeare that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the Cobbe portrait, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the ‘Chandos portrait’ after a previous owner, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 1856. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
~Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (Act IV, Scene I, Line 65)
Portia and Shylock (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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William Shakespeare: What we may be
William Shakespeare (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
~William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare: Nobler?
William Shakespeare (Photo credit: Christopher Marks)
“To be or not to be — whether ’tis is nobler in the mind to suffer…or take up arms against a sea of troubles?”
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Julius Caesar: Power
Julius Caesar (1953 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it”.
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William Shakespeare: Faults and excuses
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ”
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William Shakespeare: Lend me your ears
Sketch of William Shakespeare. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears 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
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William Shakespeare: The devil and scripture
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ”
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William Shakespeare: Honorable men
This was long thought to be the only portrait of William Shakespeare that had any claim to have been painted from life, until another possible life portrait, the Cobbe portrait, was revealed in 2009. The portrait is known as the ‘Chandos portrait’ after a previous owner, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. It was the first portrait to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 1856. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.”
William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar“, Act 3 scene 2
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William Shakespeare: Heavenly thoughts
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. –
William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
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Aphra Behn: Happy Lover's Hour
A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ”
—Aphra Behn
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Love
Leo Buscaglia, Miami Book Fair International, 1987 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. ”
—Leo Buscaglia
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William Shakespeare: Faces
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
—William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare: To Thine Own Self Be True
” This above all to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.” –
Shakespeare: Hamlet I.iii.
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William Shakespeare: This above all…
This above all; to thine own self be true. ”
William Shakespeare.
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William Shakespeare: Physician to my love
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me. – William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true
This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616).
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William Shakespeare: Company
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
Source: The Quotations Book.
