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Quotes - Shakespeare


Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

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. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

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