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Encyclopedia > List of quotes from Shakespeare in Brave New World

The list of quotes from Shakespeare in Brave New World refers to the large number of quotations in the 1932 dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, which are derived from the plays and other works of William Shakespeare. For the Wikipedia quotation templates, see Category:Quotation templates. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. ... Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown A play, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialog between characters, and intended for performance rather than reading. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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List of quotations

Antony and Cleopatra

Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Chapter 11, pg 157 Antony and Cleopatra (I, iii)
Antony and Cleopatra is a historical tragedy by William Shakespeare, originally printed in the First Folio of 1623. ...


Hamlet

Nay, but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty…
Chapter 8, Page 137 Hamlet (III, iv)

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ...


When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed…
Chapter 8, Page 133 Hamlet (III, iii)


Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing end them?
Chapter 17, Page 235f. Hamlet (III, i)


To sleep: perchance to dream
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?
Chapter 18, Page 250 Hamlet (III, i)


A good kissing carrion
Chapter 18, page 250 Hamlet (II,ii)


King John

I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal
Chapter 17, pg 237 King John (III, i)
The Life and Death of King John is one of the Shakespearean histories, plays written by William Shakespeare and based on the history of England. ...


King Lear

The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Chapter 13, Page 195 King Lear (IV, vi)

Title page of the first quarto edition, published in 1608 King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ...


The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to't
With a more riotous appetite.
Down from the waist they are Centaurs,
Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit,
Beneath is all the fiends';
There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit,
Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie,
fie, fie! pah, pah!
Give me an ounce of civet,
good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:
Chapter 13, Page 195 King Lear (IV, vi)


The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us:
The dark and vicious place where thee he got
Cost him his eyes.
Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;
The wheel is come full circle: I am here.
Chapter 17, Page 235 King Lear (V, iii)


As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
Chapter 18, 254 King Lear (IV, i)


Macbeth

The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Chapter 7, Page 117 Macbeth (II, ii)

Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer The Tragedy of Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeares plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. ...


To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow... (the end of this is in there somewhere too)
Chapter 8, Page 136 Macbeth (V, v)


Othello

Goats and monkeys!
Othello (IV, i) Title page of the first quarto edition of Othello, published in 1622 The Tragœdy of Othello, The Moore of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written around 1603. ...


O thou weed,
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
That the sense aches at thee
Chapter 13, pg 200 Othello (IV, ii)


Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write 'whore' upon?
Chapter 13, pg 200 Othello (IV, ii)


If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death
Chapter 17, pg 238 Othello (II, i)


The Phoenix and the Turtle

Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
Chapter 12, pg 186 The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Phoenix and the Turtle is a poem by William Shakespeare. ...


Property was thus appalled,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
Chapter 12, pg 186 The Phoenix and the Turtle


Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
line 37-42


Romeo and Juliet

On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand may seize
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their ow n kisses sin.
pg 146 Romeo and Juliet (III, iii)
For other meanings see Romeo (disambiguation) and Juliet (disambiguation). ...


O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear...
pg 181 Romeo and Juliet (I, v)


Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
Chapter 12, pg 187 Romeo and Juliet (III, v)


The Tempest

If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite…
Chapter 12, pg 191 The Tempest (IV, i)
To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
Chapters 8 & 15 The Tempest (V, i)


Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
Chapter 16, pg 224 The Tempest (III, ii)


Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the world! (...) O you, so perfect and so peerless are created of every creature's best.
Chapter 13 pg 190 The Tempest (III, i)


Timon of Athens


for those milk-paps,
That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes Exactly Quoted (John)
Chapter 13, pg 194 The Tempest (IV, iii)


Troilus and Cressida

Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh…
Chapter 9, pg 146 Troilus and Cressida (I, i)
The History of Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of Hamlet. ...


Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind
That doth renew swifter than blood decays!
Chapter 13, pg 195 Troilus and Cressida (III, ii)


But value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer:
pg 242 Troilus and Cressida (II, ii)


Julius Caesar

Lend me your ears
Chapter 15 Julius Caesar (III, ii) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. ...



 

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