William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 49

• There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Events

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [377]

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• Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lips, Eternity

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

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• So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​

  William Shakespeare

  Confusion, Midsummer, Spleen

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Physicians, Silliness

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

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• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Memorable, Thieves

  1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Health, Garden

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [323]

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• We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Gone, Time Management

  William Shakespeare (1813). “King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V”, p.49

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• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Maturity, Past

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• Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Way

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

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• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Soul, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1853). “The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.48

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• Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Play, Justice

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

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• Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Whales, Camels

  'hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [400]

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• Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings And Love, Lear, Regard

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.328

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• Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Saint, May

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 127

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• It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Men, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.642

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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• O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Knots, Hard

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1845, Oxford University Press

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• Love laughs at locksmiths.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Blood

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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