William Shakespeare Quotes About Waiting

• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

• Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Digestion, Appetite

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38

• Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Waiting

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

• 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

• Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Waiting, Cold

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

• Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Waiting, Advice

• One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

• Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Scandal, States

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

• The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1999). “The Narrative Poems”, p.88, Penguin

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