William Shakespeare Quotes About Fighting

• Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Giving, Gone

• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

• Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sleep, Fighting

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.412, Classic Books Company

• Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Fighting, Extremes

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1209, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Fighting, Flesh

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

• Fight to the last gasp.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Fighting, Lasts

• We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.78

• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

• I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Fighting, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.49

• God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Battle, Royal

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

• To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
  Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
  And so your follies fight against yourself.
  Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;
  And fight and die is death destroying death,
  Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Fighting, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

• Experience teacheth us
  That resolution 's a sole help at need:
  And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
  That we be bold in every enterprise:
  Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
  Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Victory, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

• For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Bird, Owl

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

• Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
  Without a prompter.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Fighting, Should Have

  William Shakespeare (1792). “The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).”

• Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fighting, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

• Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Fighting, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.461

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