William Shakespeare Quotes About Soldiers

• Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Ambition, Soldier

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

• I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Humorous, Sadness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.747, BookCaps Study Guides

• O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Battle

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [309]

• 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Soldier, Navy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Soldier

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [417]

• By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Soldier, Shadow

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 217

• Fair Katherine, and most fair,
  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
  Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Ears

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.54, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, War, Fall

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 13, l. 60

• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Greatness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

• He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Soldier, Deceit

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.203, BookCaps Study Guides

• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

• I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Littles, Holes

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Loss, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

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