William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 74

• O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Love Is, Joy

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.205

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• Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Son, Guests

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

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• Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?

  William Shakespeare

  Pockets, Ease, Inns

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [91]

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• We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

  William Shakespeare

  Insanity, Mind, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works”, p.157

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• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.252

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Should Have, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 127

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• Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Oratory, Matter

  William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew”

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Sleep, Voice

  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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• To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Hail, Masters, Harm

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.692, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Foxes, Tricks

  1596-7 Worcester. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.9-11.

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• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Teeth, Noble

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

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• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Gold, Worship

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• Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wickedness

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• Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Wine, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Dignity, Sovereignty

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Chance

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene 4, l. 548

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• The people are the city.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, People

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.4153, Simon and Schuster

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• Lions make leopards tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Leopards, Lions

  1595 Richard. Richard II, act 1, sc.1, l.174.

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• Good luck lies in odd numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Choices, Rich

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.215

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• How much an ill word may empoison liking!

  William Shakespeare

  Gossip, May, Slander

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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