William Shakespeare Quotes About Labor

• The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Effort, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.197, Bantam Classics

• The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Work, Delight

• He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Drunk, Ink

  William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (2011). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sin, Vocation

  Ray Leslee, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Welsh (1998). “Standup Shakespeare”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

• O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Falstaff, Labor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1”, p.525

• Cold indeed, and labor lost:
  Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Winter, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1836). “Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.201

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