William Shakespeare Quotes About Husband

• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Depression, Husband

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

• Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Husband, Smell

  1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

• No worse a husband than the best of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Best Of Me

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.681

• Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Use

  1604-5 Paroles to Helen. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.209-10.

• The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Coriolanus”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

• Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Fool

  1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

• Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Husband, Joy

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

• Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Husband, Eye

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

• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Maids, Want

• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Husband, Niece

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

• I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes..”, p.68

• If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Husband, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.525, Wordsworth Editions

• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

• Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Heart, Boys

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29

• Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Alliances, World

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1459, Oxford University Press

• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Husband, Feet

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Bait

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

• Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Husband, Vines

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

• Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Lying

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [31]

• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Light

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

• Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
  Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
  Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Husband

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

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