William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 149

• When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Taming of the shrew. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Winter's tale. All's well that ends well”, p.193

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• An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Sugar, Honey

  1599-1600 Touchstone toAudrey. AsYou Like It, act 3, sc.3, l.26-7.

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• What's the news?
  None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,
  Then is doomsday near.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, News, World

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• The due of honor in no point omit.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dues, No Point

  William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

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• If I lose my honor,
  I lose myself: better I were not yours
  Than yours so branchless.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Ifs, Loses

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• Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
  To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
  Suppose the singing birds musicians,
  The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
  The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
  Than a delight measure or a dance;
  For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
  The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I beseech you,
  Wrest once the law to your authority:
  To do a great right, do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Justice, Littles

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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• When law can do no right,
  Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Bars, Can Do

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.70, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I must have liberty
  Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
  To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Liberty

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 47

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• Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
  There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
  But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
  To one of woman born.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yield, Bears

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.883, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
  In least speak most, to my capacity.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Simplicity, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.310

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• But love that comes too late,
  Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
  To the great sender turns a sour offense,
  Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gone, Too Late

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• Love's heralds should be thoughts,
  Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
  Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
  Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
  And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wind, Wings

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is your master, for he masters you;
  And he that is so yoked by a fool
  Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Fool

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.140, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Misery makes sport to mock itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Misery, Mock

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.870, Oxford University Press

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• The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Heaven, Bows

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• If money go before, all ways do lie open.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Lying, Way

  1597-8 Ford (as Brooke).The MerryWives ofWindsor, act 2, sc.2, l.164-5.

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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Crowns, Opinion

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.556

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• Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Opinion, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.33

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• Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
  The outward habit by the inward man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Inward, Fool

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index”, p.171

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• Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues
  are called fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Fool, Pairs

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [36]

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• I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
  And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, World, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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