William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 140

• None can cure their harms by wailing them.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Wailing, Harm

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.131

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• Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Weight

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• Weep I cannot;
  But my heart bleeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, My Heart

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.267

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• What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Tunes, Minutes

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• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
  And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Mind, Degenerates

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

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• Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
  Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care
  Take hold on me; for my particular grief
  Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
  That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
  And it is still itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Bed

  1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.

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• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
  By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Late

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• He must needs go that the devil drives.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Devil, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Evil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.545

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• The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Devil, Bargains

  1596-7 Prince Harry. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.117-8.

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• Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Maggots

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61

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• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Fever, Emulation, Envious

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 129

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• Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Endurance, May

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

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• More can I bear than you dare execute.

  William Shakespeare

  Endurance, Bears, Dare

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 129

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• Our enemies are our outward consciences.

  William Shakespeare

  Enemy, Conscience

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• The error of our eye directs our mind.
  What error leads must err.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Errors, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1980, Oxford University Press

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• Allow not nature more than nature needs.

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, Excess, Lear

  William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

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• Haste is needful in a desperate case.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Desperate, Cases

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• Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Pluck, Modest

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

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• Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Inconstancy

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.91

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• By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Water, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Richard III”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• The presence of a king engenders love
  Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Royal, Subjects

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Rowe (1820). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry V. King Henry VI, Parts I and II”, p.166

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• Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Kindness, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

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• Light and lust are deadly enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Lust, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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