William Shakespeare Quotes About Nature

• I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Waste, Wasting My Time

• April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

• The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
  And Nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Nature

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

• In nature's infinite book of secrecy
  A little I can read.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Nature, Book

  1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

• How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Weakness, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

• My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Hands, Human Nature

  Sonnet 111

• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

• Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Night, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan

• How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sparks, Hard

  William Shakespeare, Michael Henry RANKIN (1841). “The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin”, p.140

• To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Mirrors

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

• Plutus himself,
  That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
  Hath not in nature's mystery more science
  Than I have in this ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science, Medicine

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

• And nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

• I have heard it said
  There is an art which in their piedness shares
  With great creating nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Creating

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.350

• Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Eruption, Strange

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

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