William Shakespeare Quotes About Horror

• O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Heart, Kids

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.122

• Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fire, Example

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

• Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

  William Shakespeare

  Sloth, Horror, Awake

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.1906, BookBaby

• Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Dying, Comfort

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.74

• I have supped full with horrors.

  William Shakespeare

  Horror

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

• I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Night, Hair

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

• Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

  William Shakespeare

  Horror, Abandon, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

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