William Shakespeare Quotes About Children

• Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Land, Politics

  1592-3 Third Citizen. Richard III, act 2, sc.3, l.11.

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

• 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

• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, God, Meaningful

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Double Falsehood: Third Series”, p.118, A&C Black

• As love is full of unbefitting strains,
  All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
  Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
  Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
  Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
  To every varied object in his glance

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

• ...an old man is twice a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Aging

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.842

• Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Children, Love You

• Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Lying, Grief

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Brain

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.4, l.96-8.

• As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Comfort

  Sonnet 37

• And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

• Dreams are the children of idled minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Mind

• Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Heart, Fairy

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.51

• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Eye

• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

• Those that do teach young babes
  Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Children, Mean

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 111

• What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
  That need to be revived and breathed in me?

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossary”, p.164

• Let us our lives, our souls,
  Our debts, our careful wives,
  Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Children, Wife

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

• Barnes are blessings.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2303, BookCaps Study Guides

• Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Children, Book

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

• When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Understanding

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

• Men from children nothing differ.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sassy, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.236, BookCaps Study Guides

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