William Shakespeare Quotes About Work

• If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Work, Holiday

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]

• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Work, Plebeians

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

• The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Work, Delight

• He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Work, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]

• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
  If it be man's work, I'll do't.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Men, Oats

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.99

• I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Shoes, Danger

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.158, Cengage Learning EMEA

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