William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 104

• One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Harmony, Enchanting

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mutiny, Spirit

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• Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
  Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
  Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
  Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Strong, Law

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.137, Wordsworth Editions

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• Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
  Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Care, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Macbeth”, p.73, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
  If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
  A stranger to thy thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Ears, Stranger

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, p.384

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• O constancy, be strong upon my side,
  Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
  I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Heart, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

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• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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• Contention, like a horse,
  Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
  And bears down all before him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Bears, Broke

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.123

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• Live loath'd and long,
  Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
  Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
  You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
  Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Time Flies, Knees

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

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• Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Reason, Lord

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.124

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• Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

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• In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
  To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
  By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Names

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

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• If yon bethink yourself of any crime
  Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace,
  Solicit for it straight.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heaven, Grace

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.126, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Nymphs, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 89

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• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
  Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
  All many be well.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Steel

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Plot, Shapes, Divinity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
  And hold-fast is the only dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Cake

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

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• Full of wise saws and modern instances.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Saws, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The gates of monarchs
  Are arched so high that giants may jet through
  And keep their impious turbans on without
  Good morrow to the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Giants, May, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.72, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by, and then his state
  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
  Into the main of waters.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Water, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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• All surfeit is the father of much fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Measure For Measure, Satiety

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Too Much, Taste

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Savages, Done

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• Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Pardon, Flats

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan, Marina Kastan (2000). “William Shakespeare”, p.32, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

  William Shakespeare

  Suggestions, Arms, Constant

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.384

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