William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 109

• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Play, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

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• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Joy, Soul

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• For I can raise no money by vile means.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Mean, Raises

  William Shakespeare, William Oxberry, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Owen Fawcett (1822). “Julius Caesar: A Tragedy”, p.63

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• Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Time Management, Hours

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 146

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• Such as we are made of, such we be.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Destiny

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce (1857). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.74

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• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, World

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.262, Perfection Learning

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• Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Matter, Lord

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Age

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 32

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

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• O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Jewels, True Beauty

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Dies, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.133, BookCaps Study Guides

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• They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

  William Shakespeare

  Jobs, Men, Police

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [19]

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• a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Looks, Young

  Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, A. C. Ward (1965). “Northanger abbey”

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• I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Peace, Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

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• Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Kings, Rain

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.836

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• Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Mad

  William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.141, Cambridge University Press

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• But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Reason

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• An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

  William Shakespeare

  White, Black, Rams

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Mind, Loud

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• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Love, Men, Sea

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Vengeance, Virtue

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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