William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 79

• I would fain die a dry death.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Dry, Dies

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Crazy, Wind, Mad

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [405]

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Ambition, Soldier

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

  William Shakespeare

  Communication, Language, Stolen

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [39]

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• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Home, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Dog, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.567

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• I dote on his very absence.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Absence

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [117]

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.438

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• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

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• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
  Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
  Figures pedantical--these summer flies
  Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Three, Phrases

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

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• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Work, Plebeians

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Mistress, Sound

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• There's such divinity doth hedge a king
  That treason can but peep to what it would.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kings And Queens, Divinity

  "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

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• That is honor's scorn
  Which challenges itself as honor's born
  And is not like the sire. Honors thrive
  When rather from our acts we them derive
  Than our foregoers.

  William Shakespeare

  Challenges, Honor, Born

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.565

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• Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
  many of my old acquaintance are dead!

  William Shakespeare

  Mad, Nostalgia, Mortality

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

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• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

  William Shakespeare

  Solitude, Comfort, Sociable

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 4, sc.2, l.12-13.

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• Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Loss, Play

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
  And after summer evermore succeeds
  Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
  So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

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• Much rain wears the marble.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Rain, Marble

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

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• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Memorable, Heart

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