Top 42 Strange Shakespeare Quotes
#2. As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance
William Shakespeare
#3. Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
William Shakespeare
#4. O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
William Shakespeare
#6. Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
William Shakespeare
#8. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.
Michael Montoure
#9. tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflam'd respect.
William Shakespeare
#11. This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
William Shakespeare
#12. O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!
Not to believe, and yet too credulous:
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.
William Shakespeare
#13. Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
#14. I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
William Shakespeare
#15. How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.
William Shakespeare
#16. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.
William Shakespeare
#17. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.
William Shakespeare
#18. With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
William Shakespeare
#19. HIPPOLYTA
But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy,
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
William Shakespeare
#20. But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare
#21. Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history,
is second childishness and mere oblivion.
I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
#22. A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
#24. World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.
William Shakespeare
#25. Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.
William Shakespeare
#26. Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.
William Shakespeare
#27. Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
William Shakespeare
#28. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
My love should kindle to inflamed respect.
William Shakespeare
#29. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
William Shakespeare
#30. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod:
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of
William Shakespeare
#31. It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
William Shakespeare
#32. Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
William Shakespeare
#33. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
#34. The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
William Shakespeare
#35. Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".
Bill Shakespeare
#36. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.
William Shakespeare
#37. I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
William Shakespeare
#38. You may wear her in title yours: but, you know, strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.
William Shakespeare
#40. Good signiors, both, when shall we laugh? Say, when? You grow exceeding strange: Must it be so? Salar. We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.
William Shakespeare
#42. Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
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