William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 115

• Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
  Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
  But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
  Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Strong, Wall

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 93

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• That but this blow
  Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
  But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
  We'ld jump the life to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Blow, Lds

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

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• Leave us to our free election.

  William Shakespeare

  4th Of July, Election, Free Elections

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Pericles”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• We cannot all be masters.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Acceptance, Masters

  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.230

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• Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Philosophy, Adversity

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

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• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Clothes, Vices

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Keep thy friend
  Under thy own life's key.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Keys

  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.228

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• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real, Bears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

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• The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Ties, Together

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes”, p.377

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• I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Desire, Way

  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 and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.19

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• Thy friendship makes us fresh.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.100

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• If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
  As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
  A breed for barren metal of his friend?

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Shylock, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Antonio to Shylock.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.3, l.130-3.

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• Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Fame

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• Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Foul, Seems

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• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Water, Racks

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 9

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• Well-apparel'd April on the heel
  Of limping Winter treads.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Winter, April

  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.82

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• There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakup, Flames, Snuff

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.252, Nelson Thornes

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• I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Feelings

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [204]

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• He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Kissing, Echoes

  1593 Gremio, of Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.3, l.50-2.

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• O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, War, Saint

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]

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• There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Men, Good Man

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [146]

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• Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Childhood, Anxiety

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 29

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• There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Personality, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.315

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