William Shakespeare Quotes About Childhood

• Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
  But more when envy breeds unkind division:
  There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Hands, Envy

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.84

• Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Childhood, Anxiety

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

• Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

• Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
  Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
  That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
  Without our grace, our love, our benison.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Childhood, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

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