William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 136

• Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Self, Hands

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.76-8.

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• And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Should Have, World

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.117, 1st World Publishing

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• Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Swans, White

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.434

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• Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Temperance, Appliances

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

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• Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Body, Temperance

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [57]

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• Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Drink, Harness

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Timon of Athens”, p.18, Penguin

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• I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tongue, Hold Me

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.290

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Worst, Foe

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Bird, Owl

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

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• Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

  William Shakespeare

  True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love, Torches

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

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• For I am nothing if not critical.

  William Shakespeare

  Critics, Critical, Ifs

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 118

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• A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

  William Shakespeare

  Culture, Poor, My Own

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• Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Long, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, Mouths, Lines

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Chance, Planning, Exposure

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

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• The truest poetry is the most feigning.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry Is, Touchstones, Feigning

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”

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• I can no longer live by thinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Live By, I Can

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• Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Dad, Father

  William Shakespeare, L. A. Beaurline (1990). “King John”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• All hoods make not monks.

  William Shakespeare

  Appearance, Monk, Hood

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, Samuel Weller Singer, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.184

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• Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Corruption, Sweetest

  Sonnet 35

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• Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

  William Shakespeare

  Curiosity

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare”, p.143

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• But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Clay, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.268

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• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity

  William Shakespeare (1861). “Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter”, p.70

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• Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.590

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