William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 146

• I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wedding Anniversary, Way

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.139

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• I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Sight

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.136

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• By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Love You, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.203

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• I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Medicine, Rogues

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Good counselors lack no clients.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Clients, Counselor

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.64, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Flower, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940

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• For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Bereavement

  Sonnet 30

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• O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Powerful, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2475, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

  William Shakespeare

  Depression, Grief, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Envy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

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• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  William Shakespeare

  Adders, Bright Days, Walking

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Night

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

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• For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [409]

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• O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Fall

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Anguish

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

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• Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Idols, Mad

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291

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• To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Skills, Ends

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [108]

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• Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Hours, Advantage

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.577

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• We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Weed, Lying

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Delight, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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• Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  William Shakespeare (1874). “The Reference Shakespeare: A self-interpreting Edition of Shakespeares Plays containing 11600 References. Compiled by John B. Marsh”, p.338

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• Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.334

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• Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Falsehood falsehood cures

  William Shakespeare

  Mistake, Cures, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1169, Oxford University Press

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