William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 63

• Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sex, Way

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 124

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• Ten masts make not the altitude
  Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
  Thy life's a miracle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Miracle, Masts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.797

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• Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
  To fill the world with vicious qualities.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Long, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.197, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
  And with the other fling it at thy face.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Blow, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.650, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
  To signify thou camest to bite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Teeth, World

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2200, BookBaby

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• I can see his pride
  Peep through each part of him.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Sassy, I Can

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.15

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• O you beast!
  I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
  That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Thinking, Iron

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.356

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• O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
  Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Coward

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.105

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• Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Two, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 2, l. [117]

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• The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Gaudy

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 1

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Long, Windsor

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• These blessed candles of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Night, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220

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• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Love Is, Lessons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

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• A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Hot, Cups

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

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• Patch grief with proverbs.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Patches

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

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• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Angel, Clouds

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Tides

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• This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Brain, Creation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Stupidity, Strange

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Giants, Poor

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• ... And death unloads thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Thee

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 25

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• This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Hamlet Death, Strict

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.283

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