William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 66

• What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

  William Shakespeare

  Rivers, Trout, Peculiar

  William Shakespeare, Nicolaus Delius (1859). “Shakspere's Werke”

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• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Mistake, Office

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• For to define true madness,
  What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Mad, Madness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 93

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• And nature must obey necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

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• O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, World, Vex

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [314]

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• Avaunt, you cullions!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.206, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He is white-livered and red-faced.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, White, Red

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.162, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Gonzalo From Tempest, Command

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, World, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Creativity, Creative, Shame

  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.374

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Sleep, Law

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Soul, Monsters

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 158

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• . . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Crowns

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Repent, Wells

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [5]

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• Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
  So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Two, Lovely

  William Shakespeare (1796). “The Plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.30

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• For there was never yet philosoper
  That could endure the toothache patiently,
  However they have writ the style of gods,
  And made a push at chance and sufferance.

  William Shakespeare

  Style, Endurance, Chance

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.109, Penguin

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• Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Blood

  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.431

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• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Foul, Clearness

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179

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• I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so
  To punish me with this, and this with me,
  That I must be their scourge and minister.
  I will bestow him, and will answer well
  The death I gave him. So again good night.
  I must be cruel only to be kind.
  Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Heaven, Answers

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.610

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• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Mistress

  Sonnet 130

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• The king's name is a tower of strength.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Kings, Names

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sky, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.333, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ears, Tongue

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Pleasure, Merry

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure”, p.64

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