William Shakespeare Quotes About Losing

• When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hate, People

• We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Prayer, Ignorant

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

• Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  William Shakespeare (1862). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.52

• Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Loss, Men

• Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Docks, Losing, Hateful

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Green, Docks

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

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