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  • Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

    William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin
  • Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

    William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355
  • 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

    Anger  
    William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612
  • Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics
  • For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

    Art  
    William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions
  • Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

    Men  
    "Romeo and Juliet".
  • Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8
  • Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

    William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure”, p.64
  • Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

    Love   Men   Giving  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [252]
  • Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

  • The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

    William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II”, p.260
  • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

    Love  
    William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.252, Palgrave Macmillan
  • These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

    Flower  
    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions
  • No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

    'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39
  • And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

    Love   Hate  
    'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28
  • While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

    Drunk   Bed   Rage  
    William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.381
  • All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

    William Shakespeare (1852). “The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes”, p.403
  • Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

    William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75
  • Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides
  • The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

    Men  
    1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.
  • Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.106, BookCaps Study Guides
  • A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

    1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.
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