William Shakespeare Quotes About Tigers

• 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

• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, War, Adversity

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

• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

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

• O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart, Tigers

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 4, l. 137

• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

• What man dare, I dare.
  Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
  The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
  Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
  Shall never tremble.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Nerves, Shapes

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

• There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Males, Milk

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.6279, BookCaps Study Guides

• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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