William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 102

• Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Larks, Hawks

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens [sic], and Reed, with glossarial notes”, p.67

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• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Knavery, Knaves

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 123

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• Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

  William Shakespeare

  Knavery, Faces, Used

  William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann (1996). “Othello: Third Series”, p.182, A&C Black

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• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Lilies, Fields

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.130

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• Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Tomorrow

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

  William Shakespeare

  Secure, Wounds

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

  William Shakespeare

  Worst, Climbs, Cease

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.92

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• If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Circumstances, Leading Me

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet's madness. Hamlet, act 2, sc.2, l.159-61.

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• Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Covering, Coats, Folly

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.401

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• When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Understanding

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

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• Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Bed, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [131]

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• Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Heaven, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.639

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• We make trifles of terrors,
  Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
  When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Terror, Trifles

  1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

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• Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Heat

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.658

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• All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Stage, Variance

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• Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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• What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1831). “The Dramatic Works”, p.15

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• I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.394

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• Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Atheism, Faces

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 5, l. [29]

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• His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Atheism, Way

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act1, sc.4, l.11-12.

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• Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

  William Shakespeare

  Golf, Hands, Holes

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Light

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.282

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• You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Grief, Needs

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