William Shakespeare Quotes About Dogs

• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

• My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Morning, Adorable

• France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Feet

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.231

• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Moon, Rome

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 27

• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.294

• Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Dog, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.567

• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

• Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Fairness, Good Dog

  William Shakespeare, Henry NEELE (1824). “Shakespeare's Plays, with notes by H. Neele. With engraved plates”

• I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Hate, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2478, Oxford University Press

• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, War, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

• The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Littles, Sweetheart

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [65]

• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Oracles, Lips

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

• Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Honesty, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.177, BookCaps Study Guides

• Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Jealous, Eye

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Breathing

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

• A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Pox, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Coward

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.150, Oxford University Press, USA

• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

• For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
  And hold-fast is the only dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Cake

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

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