William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 39

• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Men, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Famous Inspirational, Heart, Way

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• For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Noble Man, Glad

  William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Mrs. Inchbald (1808). “King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts”

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• To be direct and honest is not safe.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Safe, Not Honest

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 376

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• I prithee gentle friend,
  Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
  In this uncivil and unjust extent
  Against thy peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Listening, Unjust

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• What is more miserable than discontent?

  William Shakespeare

  Miserable, Discontent

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field”, p.15, Classic Books Company

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• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

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• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Sin, Covetousness

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

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• He kills her in her own humor.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Taming Of The Shrew

  William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price (2002). “Taming of the Shrew”, p.25, Theatrefolk

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• I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Protest

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 2, l. [283]

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• Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Nurse, Good Times

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

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• Come not within the measure of my wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Wrath

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.372, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Loss, Men

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• Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

  William Shakespeare

  Company, Spoil

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.110

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• Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Heart, Sight

  William Shakespeare (1856). “As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, what you will”, p.74

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• A man should be what he seems.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Should, Seems

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• Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sea, Water

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 54

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• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Silence, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

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• Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Fate, Men

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• You must not think
  That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
  That we can let our beard be shook with danger
  And think it pastime.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Thinking, Dull

  William Shakespeare (1850). “Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon”, p.16

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• Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
  Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Farewell, Ambition

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

  William Shakespeare

  Trust, Honesty, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Walton Williams (1964). “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Edition”, p.127, Duke University Press

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• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Greatness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

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