William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 67

• Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Woe, Poor

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

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• Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Hateful, Mask

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.8

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• When the age is in, the wit is out

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Wit

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

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• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Simple, Ideas

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

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• Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
  Not what is dangerous present, but the los
  Of what is past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, May, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Classical Tragedies”, p.476, Bantam Classics

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• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Laughing, Comedy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Weight, Bears

  William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine (1998). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Insects, Moths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.176

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• I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Teenager, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.19

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• A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Humanity

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 1, l. 31

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• It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Desire, Pounds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.308, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Law, Tunes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [159]

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• I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Simple

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 162

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• Let us our lives, our souls,
  Our debts, our careful wives,
  Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Children, Wife

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

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• An earnest conjuration from the King,
  As England was his faithful tributary,
  As love between them like the palm might flourish,
  As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
  And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
  And many such-like as's of great charge,
  That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
  Without debatement further, more or less,
  He should the bearers put to sudden death,
  Not shriving time allow'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Love Is, Views

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections & illustrations of various commentators”, p.263

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• This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
  That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
  So many English kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sleep, Sound

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 34

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• Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Action

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.370

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• Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mind, Your Daughter

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.23, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Light, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Shrews

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Devil, Dresses

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Tears, Venus

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

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