William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 148

• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew, Rust

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 2, l. 59

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• So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Musical, Thunder

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

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• Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Melancholy, Frenzy

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

  William Shakespeare

  Government, Obedience, Knows

  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.364

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• Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Discourse

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

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• What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
  And formless ruin of oblivion.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Ruins

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

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• You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Limits, Moderation

  William Shakespeare, Keir Elam (2008). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.171, A&C Black

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• The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Devil, Made

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• The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,
  Even in the moment that we call them ours.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Wish, Moments

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1843). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.440

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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Thoughtful, Talking, Going Away

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• All pride is willing pride.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Willing

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.184

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• When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Profanity, Swearing

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Death, Epitaph, Ill

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

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• Either our history shall with full mouth
  Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
  Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
  Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Speak, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

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• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Faults

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• Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Favors, Fortune

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• Fortune is merry,
  And in this mood will give us anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Giving, Mood

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [271]

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• Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
  This life is most jolly.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Hollies, Life Is

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• Friendship's full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Dregs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

  William Shakespeare

  Gold

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.264, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Men, Wings

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.365

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• Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Perfect Woman, One Woman

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”

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• To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grace, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.169

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