William Shakespeare Quotes About Tyranny

• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Tyrants, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Fall, Thrones

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Macbeth”, p.81, Palgrave Macmillan

• Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Kissing, Tyrants

  1607 Pericles. Pericles, sc.2, l.84.

• I do oppose
  My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
  To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
  The very tyranny and rage of his.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Suffering, Arms

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

• What's more to do,
  Which would be planted newly with the time,
  As calling home our exiled friends abroad
  That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
  Producing forth the cruel ministers
  Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
  Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
  Took off her life; this, and what needful else
  That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
  We will perform in measure, time, and place.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Home, Self

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.281

• Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Tyranny, Hardness

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspere”, p.598

• I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Age, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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