William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 101

• If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Beard, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.209

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• Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare (1909). “Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet”

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• I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

  William Shakespeare

  People, Lady Macbeth, Golden

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 31

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• Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

  William Shakespeare

  Resolution, Firm, Solutions

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.6820, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Othello”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

  William Shakespeare

  Crow, True Beauty, Torches

  Hilary Burningham, William Shakespeare (1997). “Romeo & Juliet”, p.13, Evans Brothers

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• My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eagles, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Karl Klein (2001). “Timon of Athens”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Eagles

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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• I almost die for food, and let me have it!

  William Shakespeare

  Eating, Let Me, Dies

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Envy, Half, Bears

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1257, Oxford University Press

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• Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Constant, Stills

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hands, Faces

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Men, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

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• Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Fancy

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298

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• So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Fancy, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Glasses, Two

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

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• I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Faults, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Numbers, Guests

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.150

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• The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Pale, Gin

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 89

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• Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Soul, Ears

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

  William Shakespeare

  Guilt, Use, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.397

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• So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “As You Like it”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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