William Shakespeare Quotes About Manners

• My grief lies all within,
  And these external manners of lament
  Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
  That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Silence

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Evil

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

  William Shakespeare

  Mountain, Caves, Fit

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

• So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Breathing, House, Way

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Memorable, Good Man

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

• She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
  She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
  Were man as rare as Phoenix.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Phoenix, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2682, BookCaps Study Guides

• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Imitation

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

• Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

  William Shakespeare

  Our Generation, Generations, Kind

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

• Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare (1909). “Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet”

• The seasons change their manners, as the year
  Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Weather, Months

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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