William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 40

• My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Speech, Language

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

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• If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Sides, Opinion

  William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.11

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• It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Faces, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.131, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, May, Worst

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 27

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• Ready to go but never to return.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Ready

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Romeo and Juliet: In Full Colour, Cartoon Illustrated Format”, p.53, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Reputation, Lost

  1603-4 Cassio to Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.256-8.

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• Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, Youth

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, Distrust

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Life and Death of King John”, p.242, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I myself am best
  When least in company.

  William Shakespeare

  Solitude, Company

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors”, p.11

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• Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Bragging, Ass, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

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• Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Heart, Boys

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29

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• Patch up thine old body for heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Body, Patch Up

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]

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• How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Mad, Fool

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.93

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• On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Tongue, Slander

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• Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Grace, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.117

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• Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Rain, Play

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

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• And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Defeat, Desdemona

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 159

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• But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Perfection, Absolutes

  William Shakespeare (1856). “The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes”, p.99

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• Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Honey, Dew

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

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• There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Long, Remembrance

  William Shakespeare (2009). “The Late Romances”, p.528, Bantam Classics

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• And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Upbraid, Blind

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Pain, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

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• But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
  Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
  Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
  And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Boys, Rose

  William Shakespeare (1837). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].”, p.381

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• Death-counterfeiting sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1611

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