William Shakespeare Quotes About Hurt

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

• Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast...

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

• It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Giving, Tongue

• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Love You, Lovers

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [296]

• I know them, yea,
  And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
  Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
  That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
  Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
  And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
  How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
  And this is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hurt, Lying

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71

• My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hurt, Hands

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 1, l. [190]

• Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Power, Half

  1603-4 Emilia to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.169-71.

• Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Lasts, Feels

• Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Men, Doors

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [100]

• If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sides, Opinion

  William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.11

• Doubting things go ill often hurts more
  Than to be sure they do; for certainties
  Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
  The remedy then born.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Past, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.52

• I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Brother, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [257]

• Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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