William Shakespeare Quotes About Harmony

• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Party, Loser

  1597-8 Archbishop ofYork. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.1, l.315-17.

• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

• The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

• And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Voice, Heaven

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

• O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Pain, Past

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Soul, Ears

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

• One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Harmony, Enchanting

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

• They say, the tongues of dying men
  Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
  Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
  For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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