William Shakespeare Quotes About Country

• I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, 4th Of July, Tyrants

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.213, BookCaps Study Guides

• The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Country, Long Love

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

• I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, 4th Of July, Favors

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”

• In right and service to their noble country.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, 4th Of July, Noble

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.212

• Who is here so vile that will not love his country?

  William Shakespeare

  Country, 4th Of July

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [31]

• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Memorable, Good Man

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

• 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Kings, Tree

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.87

• Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Lying, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

• I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Action, Eleven

• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
  To do our country loss; and if to live,
  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
  God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Loss, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

• The bay-trees in our country are all withered,
  And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven.
  The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
  And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.
  Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;
  The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
  The other to enjoy by rage and war.
  These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Stars, Kings

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

• 'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Pride

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [99]

• I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Profound, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147

• Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Son, Patriotism

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

• Be just, and fear not.
  Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
  Thy God's and truth's.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Ends, Fear Not

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

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