William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 153

• I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Feels, Knows

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• Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

  William Shakespeare

  Clever, Garments

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• He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Beard, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.107

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• Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Feet, Foe

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh, I am fortune's fool!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Fool, Classic

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Romeo et Juliette: tragédie”, p.54

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• I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Men, Causes

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [7]

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• And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

  William Shakespeare

  Made

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 2, l. 12

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• Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Library, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 109

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• World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Yield, Age

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.231, Classic Books Company

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• In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Learning, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

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• If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Breathing

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Bats

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Battle, Royal

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Stars, Hours

  1598 Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.313-14.

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• what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Injury, Mockery

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• The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Owl, Spirit, Wonder

  "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Goodness, Desdemona

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.

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• Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Thee, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Much Ado About Nothing: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.78, Prestwick House Inc

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• A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Good Day, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

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• You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

  William Shakespeare

  Alchemist, Gold, Alchemy

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.214, Palgrave Macmillan

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• That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

  William Shakespeare

  Silent, Should

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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