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William Shakespeare on Halloween

1564–1616 England

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33 quotes

His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.

Macbeth (1605)

It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
When the most mighty gods by tokens send
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.

Julius Cæsar (1599)

It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
Kills me to look on't.

Cymbeline (1611)

The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Troilus and Cressida (1609)

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Henry VI (1594)

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not be forever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

Bear from hence his body:
And mourn you for him: let him be regarded
As the most noble corse that ever herald
Did follow to his urn.

Taking the measure of an unmade grave.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

For I am sick and capable of fears,
Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
A woman, naturally born to fears.

King John (1598)

Has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave-making?
Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.