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| I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament. |
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| O Ceremony, show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, creating awe and fear in other men? |
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| Henry V; Henry questioning the value of ceremony and hierarchy |
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| Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me, and may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be! |
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| I confess it is my nature's plague to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not. |
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| Othello; Iago, using reverse psychology telling Othello not to be jealous. |
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| Impute it not a crime to me that I slide o'er sixteen years. |
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| The Winter's Tale; "Time" as a character walking across stage. |
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| But men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves. |
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| But fair thee well, most foul, most fair! Farewell, thou pure impiety and impious purity! For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love, and on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, to turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, and never shall it be more gracious. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Claudio |
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| I follow him to serve my turn upon him. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot truly be followed. You shall mark many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that wears out his time, much like his master's ass... |
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| Othello; Iago talking about how he's not really loyal to Othello. |
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| Good queen, my lord, I say good queen, and would by combat make her good, so were I a man, the worst about you. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Paulina defending the honor of the Hermione. |
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| "Didst thou note the daughter of ____?" "I noted her not, but I looked on her." |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Claudio falling head over heels for Hero, but Benedick doesn't see what all the fuss is about. |
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| In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blas of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; |
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| Henry V; Henry rousing the troops to appropriate violence during wartime. |
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| Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honorable. |
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| Julius Caesar; Antony using sneaky reverse psychology on the gullible plebes. |
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| A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Mamillius telling bedtime stories. It's sad because he dies. |
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| Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, ____, my reputation! |
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| Othello; Cassio whining about how he let himself get drunk. |
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| It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Don John |
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| Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. |
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| Julius Caesar; Brutus to the crowd |
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| When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes ____. By this day, she's a fair lady. I do spy some marks of love in her. |
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| Much Ado about Nothing; Benedick deciding to pursue Beatrice now that he's convinced that she loves him. |
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| You always end with a jade's trick; I know you of old. |
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| Much Ado about Nothing; Beatrice is mad at Benedick for bowing out of their wit match early. |
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| Then you must speak of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, perplexed in the extreme, of one whose hand (like the base Judean) threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe; |
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| Othello; Othello giving his final farewell to the world |
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| We are glad ___ is so pleasant with us, his present and your pains we thank you for. When we have matched our rackets to these balls, we will, by God's grace, play a set shall strike his father's crown into the hazard |
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| Henry V; Henry being all passive-aggressive to the Dolphin who's insulting him because of his age. |
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| There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. |
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| ___, I never stood on ceremonies, yet now they fright me. There is one within, besides the things that we have heard and seen, recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. |
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| Julius Caesar; Calphurnia warning Caesar of the unusual bad omens that foretell his impending DOOM. |
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| I was not angry since I came to France until this instant. |
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| Henry V; Henry is pissed because the French murdered the kids. |
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| Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Caesar on not fearing death. |
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| Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Beatrice of Benedick's wishy-washiness and general unwillingness to commit in the past. |
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| Tis a common proof that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. |
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| Julius Caesar: Brutus, fearing that Caesar will grow too powerful and forget the people. |
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| On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls are now confined two mighty monarchies....Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them printing their proud hoofs in the receiving earth; for tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings. |
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| Henry V; prologue,apologizing for their lack of technology. Even Shakespeare knew that he was living in the dark ages before the interwebs. |
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| It is silliness to live, when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die, when death is our physician. |
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| Othello; Roderigo, pining after Desdemona. |
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Term
"Sweet, let me see your face."
"No, that you shall not till you take her hand, before this friar, and swear to marry her." |
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| Much Ado about Nothing; Claudio promising to marry Hero without seeing her, breaking the trend of "seeing" in the play. |
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| marry, I would not do such a thing for a joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exhibition; but, for all the world, who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for it. |
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| Othello; Emilia would be sleezy if the benefits were good enough. |
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| Well, ___, thou art noble; yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced? |
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| Julius Caesar; Cassius, planning to use Brutus' honor against him in the plot against Caesar. |
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| O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene! |
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Term
| There is a kind of merry war betwixt ___ and her; they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Leonardo about Beatrice and Benedick. |
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| If you dare not trust that you see, confess not that you know. If you will follow me, I will show you enough, and when you have seen more, and heard more, proceed accordingly. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Don John encouraging Claudio to believe what his eyes tell him: that Hero is being unfaithful. |
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| Think you I am no stronger than my sex, being so fathered and so husbanded? Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose them. I have made strong proof of my constancy, giving myself a voluntary wound here, in my thigh; can I bear that with patience, and not my husband's secrets? |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Portia stabs herself in the leg to convince Brutus that she's not weak and can handle his secret. |
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Term
| We shall find him a shrewd contriver; and you know, his means, if he improve them, may well stretch so far as to annoy us all; which to prevent, let ___ and ___ fall together. |
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| Julius Caesar; Cassius suggesting that they kill Antony too. Probably would've been a good idea. |
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| When he shall hear she died upon his words, the idea of her life shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination, and every lovely organ of her life shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, more moving, delicate, and full of life into the eye of his soul than when she lived indeed. Then shall he mourn... |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; The friar counseling Hero to pretend she's dead, because that's apparently the thing to do to solve all relationship problems. |
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| There is no terror in your threats; for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass by me as the idle wind, which I respect not. |
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| Julius Caesar; Brutus standing up to Cassius. |
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| But masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. |
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| Much Ado about Nothing; Dogberry, insulting himself. |
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| Yet ____ says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what ____ spoke, but I am here to speak what I do know...O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. |
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| Julius Caesar; Antony dissing Brutus and swaying the crowd. |
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| Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent; for beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth into blood. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Claudio whining because he thinks Don Pedro is sweet on Hero. |
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| Yond ____ has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much. |
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| Julius Caesar; Caesar about Cassius. |
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| O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. Out of my sight! |
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| Othello; Othello accusing Desdemona of dishonesty. |
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| Affection! thy intention stabs the centre. Thou dost make possible things not so held, communicat'st with dreams, with what's unreal thou co-active art, and fellow'st nothing. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Leontes. |
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| He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. |
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| Julius Caesar; Cassius being jealous of Caesar, like a whiner. |
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| Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Balthasar's song about the fickleness of men. |
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| How blest am I in my just censure! in my true opinion! Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed in being so blest! There may be in the cup a spider steeped and one may drink; depart and yet partake no venom (for his knowledge is not infected), but if one present the abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known how he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides with violent hefts. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Leontes, now suspecting that his wife is unfaithful. |
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| You may think I love you not; let that appear hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will manifest. For _____, I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage--surely suit ill spent and labor ill bestowed. |
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| Much Ado about Nothing; Don John, planting seeds of suspicion to spoil Claudio's marriage for some reason. |
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Term
| Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. |
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| Othello; Iago, gloating about how he's ruining Othello's life with seeds of jealousy. |
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| I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am. |
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| Othello; Iago talking about his two-facedness. |
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| I pray you, in your letters, when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. |
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Definition
| Othello, Othello about to kill himself. |
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| And by how much she strives to do him good, she shall undo her credit with ___. So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all. |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago, plotting to undermine Desdemona's reputation with Othello. |
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| You, mistress, that have the office opposite to Saint Peter, and keeps the gate of hell! You, you! Ay, you! We have done our course; there's money for your pains. I pray you turn the key and keep our counsel. |
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Definition
| Othello; Othello treats Emilia like a brothel keeper, insulting the sanctity of the marriage bed. |
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| Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much! |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Claudio making excuses for not knowing what to say to Hero. |
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| Looking through the lines of my bow's face, methoughts I did recoil twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd in my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled, lest it should bite its master, and so prove too dangerous. How like I then was to this kernel, this squash, this gentleman. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Leontes talking about seeing oneself in one's child. |
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"What? Canst not rule her?"
"From all dishonesty he can. In this, unless he take the course that you have done--commit me for committing honor--trust it, he shall not rule me." |
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| The Winter's Tale; Leontes and Paulina, about husbands ruling wives. |
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| ...but we in it shall be remembered--we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry is rousing his troops in a pretty democratic fashion. |
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| We are no tyrant, but a Christian king, unto whose grace our passion is as subject as is our wretches fettered in our prisons; |
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| What is it then to me, if impious War, arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends, do with his smirched complexion all fell feats enlinked to waste and desolation? What ist to me, when you yourselves are cause, if your pure maidens fall into the hand of hot and forcing violation? What rein can hold licentious wickedness when down the hill he holds his fierce career? We may as bootless spend our vain command upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil, as send precepts to the leviathan to come ashore. |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry threatening the town of Harflew with uncharacteristic violence. |
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| To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. I have tremor cordis on me; my heart dances, but not for joy, not joy. |
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| The Winter's Tale; Leontes starting to suspect that Polixenes is messing around with his wife. |
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| Rude am I in my speech, and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; for since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, till now some nine moons wasted, they have used their dearest action in the tented field. |
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Definition
| Othello; Othello, talking about himself. |
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Term
| Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid so soon as that spare ____. He reads much, he is a great observer, and he looks quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays... |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Caesar ironically telling Antony how little he fears Cassius. |
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| Alas! He gets nothing by that. In our last conflict, four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Beatrice about Benedick |
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| Why, he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool. Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None, but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is not in his wit but in his villainy. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Beatrice about Benedick to Benedick "under disguise" |
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Term
| Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Beatrice to Don Pedro about Benedick |
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Term
| He were an excellent man that were made just in the midway between him and _____. The one is just an image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling. |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Beatrice (Benedick) |
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| May I be so converted and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not. I will be sworn but Love may transform me to an oyster, but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well, another is wise, yet I am well... |
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Definition
| Much Ado About Nothing; Benedick |
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Term
| This can be no trick. The conference was sadly born. They have the truth of this from ____. They seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me? Why, it must be requited. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing; Benedick on finding out that Beatrice loves him |
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Is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lips? Stopping the career
Of laughter with a sigh--a note infallible
of breaking honesty?...
My wife be nothing, nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing. |
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Definition
| The Winter's Tale; Leontes to Camillo about his wife and Polixenes |
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Term
You, my lords,
Look on her, mark her well. Be but about
To say "She is a goodly lady," and
The justice of your hearts will thereto add
"'Tis pity she's not honest, honorable." |
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Definition
| A Winter's Tale; Leontes to Hermione |
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I'll have thy beauty scratched with biers and made
more homely than thy state.--For thee, fond boy,
If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
That thou no more shalt see this knack--as never I mean thou shalt |
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Definition
| The Winter's Tale; Polixenes to Florizel and Perdita |
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Term
We were, Fair Queen,
Two lads that thought there was no more behind
But such a day tomorrow as today,
And to be boy eternal. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Polixenes to Hermione |
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Looking on the lines
Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil
Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched,
In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled
Lest it should bite its master and so prove, |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Leontes to Hermione about Mamillius |
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Term
If at home, sir,
He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,
Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,
My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Polixenes to Leontes |
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Term
Take her hence. Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover. I have too much believed mine own suspicion. Beseech you, tenderly apply to her
Some remedies for life. |
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| The Winter' Tale; Leontes to Paulina after the death of Hermione |
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Term
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o'the'dead
May walk again. If such be, thy mother
Appeared to me last night, for ne'er was dream
So like a waking |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Antigonus to Perdita |
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Term
| I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting... |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Shepherd before he finds Perdita. |
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Term
| Thou met'st with things dying, I with things newborn. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Shepherd to Clown |
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Your patience this allowing,
I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
As you had slept between. |
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Term
When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh, the doxy over the dale!
Why, then comes in the sweet o'the year,
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Autolycus |
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Term
Welcome hither,
As in the spring to th'earth. And hath he too
Exposed this paragon to th'fearful usage--
At least ungentle--of the dreadful Neptune |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Leontes to Florizel contrasting the rejection of his father |
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| If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me; she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now with a double occasion...I am proof against that title and what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present them. There may be matter in it. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Autolycus |
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Term
Apprehend
Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
Humbling their deities to love have taken
The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune
a ram... |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Florizel to Perdita about the festival |
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Her natural posture!
Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed
Thou art ____; or rather, thou art she in thy chiding, for she was as tender
As infancy and grace. |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Leontes about Paulina's statue |
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Term
When she was young you wooed her. Now in age
Is she become the suitor? |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Paulina to Leontes asking him to take Hermione's hand at the end of the play |
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Term
The blessed gods
Purge all infection from our air whilst you
Do climate here! |
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Definition
| The Winter' Tale; Leontes to Florizel |
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Term
The course of his youth promised it not.
The breath no sooner lift his father's body
But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Seemed to die too; |
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Definition
| Henry V; Canterbury talking about the progression of Henry |
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Term
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead! |
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Definition
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Term
Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins lay on the King!...
Must kings neglect what private men enjoy? |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry in disguise among his men |
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Term
| I dare say you love him not so ill to wish him here alone, howeverso you speak this to feel other men's minds. Methinks I could not die anywhere to so contented as in the King's company, his cause being just and his quarrel honorable. |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry in disguise among his men |
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Term
| By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the King: I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is. |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry in disguise |
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Term
O God, thy arm was here!
And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all. |
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Definition
| Henry V; Henry (God and war question) |
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Term
Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?
News have I that my Doll is dead
I'th'spital of a malady of France,
And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
Old do I wax, and from weary limbs Honor is cudgeled. |
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Definition
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| Believe me for mine honor; and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Censure your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Brutus talking about Julius Caesar |
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Term
Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time.
But men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. |
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Definition
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I could be well moved, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.
But I am constant as the norther star,
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament. |
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Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Antony to Caesar's dead body |
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Term
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!" |
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Definition
| Julius Caesar; Antony about Brutus |
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Term
Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capped to him; and by the faith of man,
I know my price, I am worth no worse a place. |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago to Roderigo |
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Term
| Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago to Roderigo |
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Term
| I do hate him as I hate hell pains |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago about Othello |
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Term
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;
For mine own gained knowledge should profane
If I would time expend with such a snipe
But for my sport and profit. |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago talking about his motives for wanting to bring down Othello |
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Term
| As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. |
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Definition
| Othello; Iago to Cassius after he is demoted |
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Term
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet and sour |
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Definition
| Othello; Emilia to Desdemona |
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That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
It is most true; true, I have married her.
The very head and front of my offending
Hath this extent, no more. |
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Definition
| Othello; Othello on being accused of seducing Desdemona |
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause. |
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Definition
| Othello; Othello about to kill Desdemona |
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Term
Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this. |
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Definition
| Othello; Othello's final speech |
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