William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 113

• Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Comfort, Earth

  1595 York. Richard II, act 2, sc.2, l.78-9.

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• Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tempest, Awake

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Towns, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

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• Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Mountain, Command

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Tempest (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.38, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Juliet, Ill

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.197, Classic Books Company

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• for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Grief, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.71-3.

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• Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Murder

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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• What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Night, Hair

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

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• It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Night, Names

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

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

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• And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mischief, Millions

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.668

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• And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Villain

  William Shakespeare (1822). “The school-Shakspeare; or, Plays and scenes from Shakspeare illustr. for the use of schools, with glossarial notes selected from the best annotators by J.R. Pitman. [26 plays & extr. from 9 others & from the sonnets].”, p.293

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• Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ivory, Erotic

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.24

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• Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Wise, Art

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, Charles Whittingham (1830). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.125

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• Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Bitter, Rebuke

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Mr Theobald (Lewis) (1803). “Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it”

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

  William Shakespeare

  Devil, Firsts, Sin

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sith, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear”, p.11, Booklassic

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• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Tears, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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• For trust not him that hath once broken faith

  William Shakespeare

  Broken, Criminal Mind

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.80

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• Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.475

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• All dark and comfortless.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 7, l. [83]

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• This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Air

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 389

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• No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wrinkles, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.355

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