William Shakespeare Quotes About Daughters

• There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Daughter, Sleep

  1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

• Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Morning, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.195, BookCaps Study Guides

• He says, he loves my daughter;
  I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon
  Upon the water, as he'll stand and read,
  As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,
  I think, there is not half a kiss to choose,
  Who loves another best.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Best Love, Love You

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.290

• The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.428

• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, May

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

• I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Two, Beast

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [117]

• Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Dream, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

• Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.475

• Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Art, Queens

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

• Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mind, Your Daughter

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.23, BookCaps Study Guides

• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

• 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

• So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Curse, Complexion

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [22]

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