William Shakespeare Quotes About Water

• To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Love You, Water

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.295, A&C Black

• A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Heart

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Evil

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 45

• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Evil, Water

• 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.

• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

• He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Brother, Ocean

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

• He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fire, Air

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.757, BookCaps Study Guides

• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

• My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Ocean, Sea

  "Fictional character: William Shakespeare". "Shakespeare in Love", 1998.

• But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Wind, Rivers

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

• Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sea, Water

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 54

• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

• He says, he loves my daughter;
  I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon
  Upon the water, as he'll stand and read,
  As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,
  I think, there is not half a kiss to choose,
  Who loves another best.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Best Love, Love You

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.290

• I pray thee cease thy counsel,
  Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Water

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.134

• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Water, Racks

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 9

• His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

• A little water clears us of this deed.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Doubt

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

• The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Thrones, Barges

  William Shakespeare (1750). “The Works: Of Shakespear in Nine Volumes. With a Glossary. Carefully Printed from the Oxford Edition in Quarto, 1744”, p.268

• What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

• Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Kings, Rain

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.836

• a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

  William Shakespeare

  Dedication, Water, Shore

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