William Shakespeare Quotes About Temperance

• Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Temperance, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer

• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

• I am sure,
  Though you can guess what temperance should be,
  You know not what it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Should, Temperance

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

• Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Temperance, Appliances

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

• Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Body, Temperance

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [57]

• Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Drink, Harness

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Timon of Athens”, p.18, Penguin

• Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

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