William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 105

• To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
  But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Mercy, Defence

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.385

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• Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Marble

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.309, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grease, Mind

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear”, p.268

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• O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Fall, Long

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.126

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• You know that love
  Will creep in service where it cannot go.

  William Shakespeare

  Creeps, Knows

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.127

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• O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Fawns

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Maids, Tongue

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Lying, Home

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• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
  Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
  Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
  More free from peril than the envious court?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Woods

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

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• How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Easy, Form

  William Shakespeare (1794). “Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale”, p.212

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• Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Habit, Potency

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

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• It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Dignity, Virtue

  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.492

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• One sin another doth provoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Provoking

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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• I came, saw, and overcame.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Saws

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [44].

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• Now the time is come,
  That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
  And let her head fall into England's lap.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Victory, Lap

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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• But virtue never will be mov'd,
  Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Shapes, Virtue

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.837

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• If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Thrifty, Ifs

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• Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Virtue, Amends

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

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• My heart laments that virtue cannot live
  Out of the teeth of emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Envy, Teeth

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

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• Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Virtue, Trumpets

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.263, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Welcome, Ceremony

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.169, Classic Books Company

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• The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Reason

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.132

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• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

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• As for my wife,
  I would you had her spirit in such another;
  The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle
  You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Pace, World

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

  William Shakespeare

  Festivals, Rhyming, Born

  1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

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