Beautiful Stories from ShakespeareShakespeare, William
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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
Children's literature; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc. -- Juvenile literature
An honest man is able to speak for himself,
when a knave is not.
King Henry VI., Part 2d -- V. 1.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be
one man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet -- II. 2.
HYPOCRISY.
Devils soonest tempt,
resembling spirits of light.
Love's Labor Lost -- IV. 3.
One may smile, and smile,
and be a villain.
Hamlet -- I. 5.
INNOCENCE.
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
And therefore am I bold and resolute.
Troilus and Cressida -- IV. 4.
INSINUATIONS.
The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands,
That calumny doth use;--
For calumny will sear
Virtue itself:--these shrugs, these bums, and ha's,
When you have said, she's goodly, come between,
Ere you can say she's honest.
Winter's Tale -- II. 1.
JEALOUSY.
Trifles, light as air,
Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Othello -- III. 3.
O beware of jealousy:
It is the green-eyed monster, which does mock
The meat it feeds on.
Idem.
JESTS.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
of him that hears it.
Love's Labor Lost -- V. 2.
He jests at scars,
that never felt a wound.
Romeo and Juliet -- II. 2.
JUDGMENT.
Heaven is above all; there sits a Judge,
That no king can corrupt.
King Henry VIII, -- III. 1.
LIFE.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth -- V. 5.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest -- IV. 1.
LOVE.
A murd'rous, guilt shows not itself more soon,
Than love that would seem bid: love's night is noon.
Twelfth Night -- III. 2.
Sweet love, changing his property,
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.
King Richard II. -- III. 2.
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
Julius Caesar -- II. 2.
The course of true-love
never did run smooth.
Midsummer Night's Dream -- I. 1.
Love looks not with the eyes,
but with the mind.
Idem.
She never told her love,--
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask check: she pined in thought
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Twelfth Night -- II. 4.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
The Merchant of Venice -- II. 6.
MAN.
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