William Shakespeare Quotes About Miracles

• Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

• A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Good Day, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

• They say miracles are past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Miracle

  1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

• Ten masts make not the altitude
  Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
  Thy life's a miracle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Miracle, Masts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.797

• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

• Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Miracle, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

• Look on beauty,
  And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
  Which therein works a miracle in nature,
  Making them lightest that wear most of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Women, Miracle

  1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

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