William Shakespeare Quotes About Obedience

• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

• Every good servant does not all commands.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Obedience, Very Good

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 1, l. 6

• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

• God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Obedience, God Bless

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.426, BookCaps Study Guides

• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Giving, Obedience

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.7392, BookCaps Study Guides

• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

• I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

  William Shakespeare

  Doctrine, Obedience

  William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.304, Oxford University Press, USA

• Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

  William Shakespeare

  Government, Obedience, Knows

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.364

• I do not know
  What kind of my obedience I should tender.
  More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
  Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
  More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
  Are all I can return.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Vanity, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King John and King Henry VIII”, p.215, Hackett Publishing

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