William Shakespeare Quotes About Habits

• As love is full of unbefitting strains,
  All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
  Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
  Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
  Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
  To every varied object in his glance

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

• Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Habit

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Intelligent, Clouds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3514, BookCaps Study Guides

• How use doth breed a habit in a man.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Use

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 1

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Devil, Monsters

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Giving, Devil

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

• Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
  The outward habit by the inward man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Inward, Fool

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index”, p.171

• Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Habit, Potency

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

• Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Voice, Giving

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
  forgone all custom of exercise.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Mirth, Melancholy

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.116, Nelson Thornes

• Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dresses, Fancy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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