William Shakespeare Quotes About Saints

• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Games, England

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Thinking, Blood

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

• Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

  William Shakespeare

  Valentines Day, Saint, Maids

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Hamlet. Cymbeline”, p.281

• And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Devil, Saint

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

• Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Saint, May

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 127

• O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, War, Saint

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]

• Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
  Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
  Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Dragons, Standards Set

  1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.

• If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
  Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
  Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
  Muffle your false love with some show of blindness;
  Let not my sister read it in your eye;
  Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
  Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
  Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
  Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
  Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
  Be secret-false.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kindness, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

• Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

• I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Gay, Jewels, Giving

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

• Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Saint, Use

  William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

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