William Shakespeare Quotes About School

• Educated men are so impressive.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Men, Impressive

• O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, School, Littles

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

• Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Youth, Grammar

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 7, l. [35]

• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

• Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Book

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

• A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

  William Shakespeare

  Girlfriend, Book, School

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