William Shakespeare Quotes About Exile

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Cutting, Night

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

• O, a kiss
  Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
  Hath virgined it e'er since.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Revenge

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
  Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
  Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
  More free from peril than the envious court?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Woods

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

• Now no way can I stray;
  Save back to England, all the world's my way.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, World, Way

  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.36

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