William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 76

• If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hate, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, p.432

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• Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Giving, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Promise, Purpose

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

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• Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Bird, Mind, Aspiration

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.424, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

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• Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Advice, Speak

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [132]

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• Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Proud

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, World

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Cures

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Persistence, Men, Ordinary

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Delight

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

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• Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Wells

  Sonnet 73

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• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Intelligence, Gulls, Ghost

  Sonnet 86

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• I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Brother, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [257]

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• When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.562

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• O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Creating

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

  William Shakespeare

  Letters, Heirs, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.320, Bantam Classics

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• If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Names, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2003). “Untitled”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Time, Clouds

  1597-8 Prince Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.2, l.133-5.

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• If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Honor, Companionship

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

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• A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Baking, Lips

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.206

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• Would the cook were o' my mind!

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Cooks, Cookery

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1452, Oxford University Press

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• By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Offending, Soul, Honor

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

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