William Shakespeare Quotes About Angels

• Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Angel, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pride, Men

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

• We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Flesh

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.407, Cengage Learning EMEA

• But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Angel, Hair

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.77, SIU Press

• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

• O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

• By that sin fell the angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Sin

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Important Macbeth, Brows

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sister, Sibling, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]

• Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
  Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
  Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
  Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
  Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
  That I will speak to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Heaven

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

• Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

• An angel; or, if not,
  An earthly paragon.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Paragon, Ifs

  1610 Belarius, of Innogen in disguise. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.6, l.42-3.

• Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Bed, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [131]

• God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pieces, Cheese

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

• But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Devil, Monsters

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Angel, Clouds

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

• There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Angel, Orbs

  1596-7 Lorenzo to Jessica.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 5, sc.1, l.58-61.

• Not an angel of the air,
  Bird melodious or bird fair,
  Be absent hence!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Bird

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

• Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
  Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
  The better angel is a man right fair,
  The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Two

  Sonnet 144

• Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Angel, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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