William Shakespeare Quotes About Nurses

• 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

• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

• Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Nurse, Good Times

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

• O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

• ...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sadness, Blood, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

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

• Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Nurse, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 1, sc. 3, l. 23

• Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Looks, Woe

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Melancholy, Frenzy

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

• This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
  This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
  . . .
  This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Land, Nurse

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

• How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

  William Shakespeare

  Humble, Kissing, Nurse

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 55

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