William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 62

• They are hare-brain'd slaves.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Brain, Slave

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1139, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wish chastely, and love dearly.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wish, And Love

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. The winter's tale”, p.127

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• If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Wit, Ifs

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”, p.109

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• We must follow, not force Providence.

  William Shakespeare

  Force, Providence

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• Experience teacheth us
  That resolution 's a sole help at need:
  And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
  That we be bold in every enterprise:
  Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
  Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Victory, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

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• Put on
  The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Resolution, Dauntless

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.343

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Self, Sin

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• There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Slander, Rail

  William Shakespeare, Keir Elam (2008). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.190, A&C Black

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• Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc.3, l.23-4.

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• Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Wish

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.927

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• Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Oil, Snuff

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press

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• I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Thank God, Giddy

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• He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Judgement, Distracted

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.361, A&C Black

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• What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Beast

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32

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• The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Folks, Chronicles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Share, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2121, BookBaby

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• The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Violent, Expeditions

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

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• There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Mercy, Fetters

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

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• Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair,
  Playing in the wanton air:
  Through the velvet leaves the wind,
  All unseen can passage find;
  That the lover, sick to death,
  Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Wind, Sick

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1847). “Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life”

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• There's daggers in men's smiles.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Daggers

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [146]

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• To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Hours, Born, Merry

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.117

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• Look on beauty,
  And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
  Which therein works a miracle in nature,
  Making them lightest that wear most of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Women, Miracle

  1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

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