William Shakespeare Quotes About Joy

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

• I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Wish

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191

• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

• Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Joy, Mirth

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.161, Courier Corporation

• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Silence, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

• Were kisses all the joys in bed,
  One woman would another wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Witty, Sex

  William Shakespeare (1841). “The Poems of Willm Shakspere”, p.142

• O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Love Is, Joy

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.205

• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Joy, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

• Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
  And after summer evermore succeeds
  Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
  So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

• How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Weeping

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Winning

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

• Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Hours, Pleasure

• The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Joy, Violence

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

• What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Light, Joy

  William Shakespeare (2011). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sight, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149

• Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
  Long continuance, and increasing,
  Hourly joys be still upon you!

  William Shakespeare

  Anniversary, Wedding, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare: Poems”, p.194, Everyman's Library

• Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Joy, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

• What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Joy, Done

• My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, World, Excitement

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.92, BookCaps Study Guides

• But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Joy, Flattery

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1036

• My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Joy, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.60

• 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

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