William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 68

• Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Tears

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.306, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The weakest goes to the wall.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Weakness, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

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• A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

  William Shakespeare

  Tables, Welcome, Dishes

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A good wit will make use of anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1372, Oxford University Press

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• Good words are better than bad strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Strokes, Good Words

  1599 Brutus to Octavius. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.29.

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• Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Hay, Fellows

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [37]

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• Some falls the means are happier to rise.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Mean

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• And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
  Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew, Liquid, Youth

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• So get the start of the majestic world
  And bear the palm alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Cassius, World, Majestic

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 128

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• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
  Begin it with weak straws.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Haste, Weak

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.27

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• Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.

  William Shakespeare

  Bachelors

  William Shakespeare (1869). “Shilling annotated Plays of Shakspeare for Students: Each Play with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes Critical Remarks and other Aids to a thorough understanding of the Drama. Edited for the use of Schools and Students preparing for Examination By the Rev. John Hunter”, p.96

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• If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
  I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Reason

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [267]

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Loss, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

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• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

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• In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Art

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

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• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

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• Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Inequality, Seems

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.181

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• Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Jewels

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.306

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• So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Self, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2874, Oxford University Press

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

  William Shakespeare

  Wedding, May, Beloved

  William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.53

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• A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Benefits, Macbeth Motif

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

  William Shakespeare

  Humor, College, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.129

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• How every fool can play upon the word!

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Fool, Wit

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 5, l. [48]

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