William Shakespeare Quotes About Fathers

• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

• 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]

• To you your father should be as a god;
  One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
  To whom you are but as a form in wax,
  By him imprinted, and within his power
  To leave the figure or disfigure it.

  William Shakespeare

  Dad, Father, Form

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.8, Callisto Media Inc

• My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Parent

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes”, p.407

• If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 4, l. 26

• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

• I am thy father's spirit;
  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
  And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
  Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
  Are burnt and purg'd away.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Night, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.215

• Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Dad, Father

  William Shakespeare, L. A. Beaurline (1990). “King John”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

• Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Eye, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Julie Hankey (2005). “Othello”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Wish

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 91

• Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Dust, Noble

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.673, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 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

• To you your father should be as a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Should, Theseus

  1595 Theseus to Hermia. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.47.

• You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Let Me

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.8

• O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Our Love, Applause

• Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
  Still question'd me the story of my life,
  From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
  That I have pass'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Father, Years

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934

• No .... holy father, throw away that thought.
  Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
  Can pierce a complete bosom.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Father, Believe

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.28

• She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Eye, Charity

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.81, Oxford University Press, USA

• Withal I did infer your lineaments,
  Being the right idea of your father,
  Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
  Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
  Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
  Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
  Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
  Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

• 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

• 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

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