William Shakespeare Quotes About Patience

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Degrees, Poor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]

• No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Patterns, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [37]

• A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Heaven, Lows

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...”, p.82

• O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Son, Flames

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

• I do oppose
  My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
  To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
  The very tyranny and rage of his.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Suffering, Arms

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

• A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Thieves, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Mean, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Cake, Wheat

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

• Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
  Extremity out of act.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Kings, Gazing

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Pericles. Titus Andronicus. Addenda. Indexes”, p.200

• Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Tired, Mares

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin

• Who can be patient in extremes?

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Patient, Be Patient

• Had it pleas'd heaven
  To try me with affliction * * *
  I should have found in some place of my soul
  A drop of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Should Have, Heaven

• 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia

• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

You May Also Like:

Miguel de Cervantes

Anne Hathaway

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Elizabeth I