William Shakespeare Quotes About Running

• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

• 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

• A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Heart

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

• For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Sleep, Watches

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [287]

• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

• Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Necks, Running Away

• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Fate, Destiny

  1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

• Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Anger, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Strange

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [53]

• We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Balance, Swiftness

• Lovers ever run before the clock

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Clock

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...”, p.173

• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

• But I will be,
  A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
  As to a lover's bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Running, Bed

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 99

• This day I breathed first: time is come round,
  And where I did begin there shall I end;
  My life is run his compass.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23

• See the minutes, how they run,
  How many make the hour full complete;
  How many hours bring about the day;
  How many days will finish up the year;
  How many years a mortal man may live.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Time, Men

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 21

• If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Love You, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [34]

• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

• Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Time Management, Hours

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 146

• To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Art, Moving

• Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Smooth Sailing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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