William Shakespeare: Likeness

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim

Source: The Passionate Pilgrim

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Like madness is the glory of this life.”

William Shakespeare Timon of Athens

Source: Timon of Athens

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Romeo”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“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 Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant

(Isabella)”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure