William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 139

• Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

  William Shakespeare

  Delight, Flattery, Praise

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

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• O Prosperina,
  For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall
  From Dis's wagon; daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
  But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
  Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
  That die unmarried, ere they can behold
  Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady
  Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
  The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
  The flower-de-luce being one.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Fall, Eye

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
  A motley fool! a miserable world!
  As I do live by food, I met a fool
  Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
  And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
  In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Down And, Fool

  1599-1600 Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.7, l.12-17.

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• Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Negatives Make, Two

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2000). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1211, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• Tis better using France than trusting France;
  Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
  Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
  And with their helps only defend ourselves;
  In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sea, Safety

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

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• Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
  With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;
  For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

  William Shakespeare

  Dragons, Golden, Fruit

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
  And follows but for form,
  Will pack, when it begins to rain,
  And leave thee in a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Storm, Gains

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.144, Classic Books Company

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• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Being Free

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

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• O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

  William Shakespeare

  Generosity, Giving, Gone

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Hamlet. Timon of Athens”, p.355

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• To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

  William Shakespeare

  Generosity, Bird, Bullets

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
  A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

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• There is none but he
  Whose being I do fear; and under him
  My genius is rebuked, as it is said
  Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

  William Shakespeare

  Genius, Antony, Said

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.855, Wordsworth Editions

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• My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Masters, Tricks

  William Shakespeare (1866). “Works, Complete: From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens”, p.241

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• I am thy father's spirit;
  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
  And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
  Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
  Are burnt and purg'd away.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Night, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.215

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• Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Guilty, Glory, Crime

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
  But in a dream of friendship,
  To have his pomp and all what state compounds
  But only painted, like his varnished friends?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Would Be, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1871). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H.N. Hudson”, p.84

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• Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

  William Shakespeare

  Gossip, Foul, Rings

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Macbeth”, Simon and Schuster

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• How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Green, Grass

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”

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• A heavier task could not have been impos'd,
  Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Tasks, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.292

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• A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Blow

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [370]

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• Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Helping, Study

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.103

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• Great griefs medicine the less.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Medicine

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1853). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy--delineations of Character--paintings of Nature and the Passions--one Thousand Aphorisms--and Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.457

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• Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
  Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Two, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.227, Oxford University Press on Demand

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