William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 55

• I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Faces, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Uncles, Eye

  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.138

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• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
  Pass'd over to the end they were created,
  Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
  Ah, what a life were this!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Years, White Hair

  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.476

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
  For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
  Must kiss their own feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Kissing, Journey

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.267

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• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

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• If is a custom,
  More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Observance, Breach

  William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12

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• And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Ears, Break

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The complete works of William Shakespeare, revised with intr. remarks and notes by S. Phelps, with engr. designed by T.H. Nicholson [and a second engr. title-leaf]. 2 vols. [publ. in parts].”, p.131

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• Reason thus with life:
  If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
  That none but fools would keep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fool, Reason

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, True Friend, Real

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

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• To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.335

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Scar, Self Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

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• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
  And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
  And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Brotherhood, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1548, Oxford University Press

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• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Climbing

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

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• Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Excellence, Earth

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Anticipation, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.92

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• Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Kind, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.72

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• Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1806). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear. Hamlet. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.555

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• But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
  Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Black

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.277

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• If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Elephants

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

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• What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flattery, Drink

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Loathing

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Grief, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

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