William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 61

• As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Theatre

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice

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

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.

  William Shakespeare

  "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice".

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tempest

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

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• Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1808). “Coriolanus; Or The Roman Matron. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. London, Longman 1808. 68,89,71,75 S., 4 Tf”, p.48

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• thus with a kiss I die

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Romance, Dies

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors”, p.247

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]

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• As merry as the day is long.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Long

  1598 Beatrice, of St Peter. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.42-4.

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• Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Habit

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Promise, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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• Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Alliances, World

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1459, Oxford University Press

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• Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Imagination, Gorges

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Faith, Simple

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

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• Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, One Day, Lions

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 44

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• Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces

  1596-7 Falstaff to Bardolph. Henry IV Part One, act 3, sc.3, l.23.

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• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Chaos

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

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• And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Heaven, Compare

  "The Winter's Tale".

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Foul, Fairs

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• He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wedding, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

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• Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  East, Sun, Juliet

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• 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, Twenties, Done

  "The Dramatic Works: Complete in Three Volumes".

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