William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 64

• O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Father, Distrust

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [161]

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• By-and-by is easily said.

  William Shakespeare

  Delay, Said

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [411]

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• We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Masters

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Othello: Third Series”, p.118, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Apparitions, I Can

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

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• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Honey, Appetite

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Appreciation, Men, Prize

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension.

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure, Apprehension

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

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• The Thane of Cawdor lives,
  A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
  Stands not within the prospect of belief,
  No more than to be Cawdor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Gentleman, Belief

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.316

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• Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak, Bondage

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

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• We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Brave, Fields, Traitor

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.516, BookCaps Study Guides

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
  Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Affair

  1599 Cassius to Brutus. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.95-6.

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, World, Buffets

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• We must not stint
  Our necessary actions in the fear
  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
  Than vainly longing.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Longing

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Acting, Speak

  1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Bait, Opinion

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence
  And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
  Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
  More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Dumb, Tongue

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• For the success,
  Although particular, shall give a scantling
  Of good or bad unto the general;
  And in such indexes, although small pricks
  To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
  The baby figure of the giant mass
  Of things to come at large.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Book, Giving

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 343

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• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Hands, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, William Hazlitt, Isaac Reed (1851). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.358

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• So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
  To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Care, Afar

  William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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