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Shakespeare shows how lust brings out the very worst in people and the extremes they will go to. Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
Oliver Twist
To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.
Oliver Twist
There never was such a goose.
It’s like the glowing ashes of a fire that once roared. My sore throats are always worse than anyones.
Persuasion
25. A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Pride and Prejudice
6.
He shows time passing through the seasons and the years, everything changing. While he is away, he tells her, they will still be together because they are not really separating. He concludes that he doesn’t condemn the beloved because human frailty, even among the best of humanity, is just as much a part of nature as the obscuring clouds are.
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
The narrator of Sonnet 73 is approaching death and thinking about how different it is from being young.
Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
Sonnet 88: When Thou Shalt Be Dispos’d To Set Me Light
Sonnet 89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault
Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
Sonnet 91: Some Glory In Ttheir Birth, Some In Their Skill
Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst To Steal Thyself Away
Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
Sonnet 94: They That Have Power To Hurt, And Will Do None
Sonnet 95: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame
Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget’st So Long
Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthen’d, Though More Weak In Seeming
Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
Sonnet 108: What’s In The Brain That Ink May Character
Sonnet 109: O!
Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
Sonnet 110: Alas! One man’s style must not be the rule of anothers.
Emma
50. There’s no better rule.
Great Expectations
Mrs. Shakespeare ends by staking everything on his observations about love by asserting that if he is wrong about it then no-one ever wrote anything and no-one ever loved.Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Sonnet 129 is an interesting take on the imperative force of lust, but its ultimate shallowness.
Had Shakespeare endorsed their publication, many believe he would have provided their printer with an authoritative text and a dedication. He tells her not to make a fuss, not to cry and get upset. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Pride and Prejudice
35. Ah, it’s a fine thing for the trade! Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration.