William Shakespeare Quotes About Books

• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

• A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Noble

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.321

• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

• I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Library, Messengers

• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Memorable, Men

• I'll note you in my book of memory.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Notes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.66

• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

• O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Dumb

  Sonnet 23

• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Future, Fate

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

• Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sleep, Eye

• From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Book, Eye

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [350]

• I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Soul, Secret

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.62

• Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Book

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

• In nature's infinite book of secrecy
  A little I can read.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Nature, Book

  1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

• Within the book and volume of thy brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Brain, Volume

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1152

• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

• You kiss by th' book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Kissing

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Romeo and Juliet: Third Series”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Gold

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

• 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

  Flower, Book, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

• A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

  William Shakespeare

  Girlfriend, Book, School

• This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Magic, Sound

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, act 5, sc.1, l.54-7.

• I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sound, Earth

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

• I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Faces, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

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