William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 123

• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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• ...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sadness, Blood, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

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• He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Matter, Mirth

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Faults

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

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• Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Gambling, Dice

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [84]

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• The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Heaven, Way

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.316

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Grace, Virtuous

  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.125

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• There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Evil

  William Shakespeare (1790*). “The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged”, p.204

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• When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

  William Shakespeare

  Eye

  William Shakespeare, Adrian Raymond (1963). “Shakespeare's Sonnets”, p.42, Heinemann

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

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• A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Tales, Goblin

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24

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• Make not your thoughts your prisons.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Prison

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.591

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• One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Devil, Hell

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

  William Shakespeare

  Engineering, Bridges, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.280

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• There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Science, Men

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• For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Squash

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305

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• Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Power, Half

  1603-4 Emilia to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.169-71.

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

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• I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Thinking, Reason

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 23

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

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

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• Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

  William Shakespeare

  Enemy, Chiefs, Safety And Security

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• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Degrees, Merit

  1596-7 Aragon.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.40-2.

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• What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hair, Given

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.194

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