William Shakespeare Quotes About Pleasure

• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Action, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sports, Winter

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

• Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Hours, Pleasure

• These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions

• No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Taken, Wealth

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

• Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Giving

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [252]

• Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Husband, Joy

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Knives, May

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

• Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Pleasure, Merry

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure”, p.64

• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Feelings, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612

• That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.252, Palgrave Macmillan

• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hate, Determined

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28

• For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

• Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Romeo and Juliet".

• Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

  William Shakespeare

  Cousin, Father, Please Me

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.106, BookCaps Study Guides

• All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The Supplementary Works of William Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare]: Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays : with Glossarial and Other Notes”, p.403

• While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Drunk, Bed, Rage

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.381

• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

• The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lasts, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II”, p.260

• The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Eagles

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  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.75

• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Decision

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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