The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare
By Max Morris
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Have you ever wanted to quote the most quoted writer in the English language? Deliver the most inventive and debasing Shakespearean insult (“Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!”)? Recite titillating love poetry like a modern-day Romeo to his (or her) Juliet? Or commit a learned wisdom about life’s woes to memory? The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare is the perfect pocket book to carry around in your arsenal. Laugh, cry, rage, and muse along with beloved (or not so beloved) Shakespeare characters like Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, and Cleopatra on the topics of love, art, beauty—as well as life’s most irreverently relevant insights.
Full of savvy wisdoms from works such as Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and many others, this inspiring collection compiles the wisest and wittiest Shakespearean quotations that speak of the writer’s enduring legacy—even in contemporary pop culture.
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The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare - Max Morris
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
POLONIUS, READING HAMLET’S
LETTER TO OPHELIA, HAMLET
Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
VENUS AND ADONIS
With love’s light wings did I
o’er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out.
ROMEO, ROMEO AND JULIET
Shall I compare thee
to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely
and more temperate.
SONNET 18
Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
CLEOPATRA, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
But soft, what light through
yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
ROMEO, ROMEO AND JULIET
All days are nights to
see, till I see thee,
And nights, bright days,
when dreams do
Show thee me.
SONNET 43
Good night, good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good
night till it be morrow.
JULIET, ROMEO AND JULIET
Men have died from time to time, and
worms have eaten them, but not for love.
ROSALIND, AS YOU LIKE IT
Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain.
VENUS AND ADONIS
Love alters not with his brief
hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to
the edge of doom.
SONNET 116
Love sought is good, but
given unsought is better.
OLIVIA, TWELFTH NIGHT
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this
powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more
bright