William Shakespeare Quotes About Treason

• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

• Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Traitor, Cases

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

• There's such divinity doth hedge a king
  That treason can but peep to what it would.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kings And Queens, Divinity

  "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

• Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Foxes, Tricks

  1596-7 Worcester. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.9-11.

• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Teeth, Noble

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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