William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 86

• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Maids, Want

  7 Copy quote

• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Yoke, World

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

  17 Copy quote

• I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Thinking, Bird

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossary”, p.181

  10 Copy quote

• Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.257

  6 Copy quote

• Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grief, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

  23 Copy quote

• IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Beer, Gay

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

  7 Copy quote

• Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Humor, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.74

  4 Copy quote

• Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Self, Necks

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.59

  4 Copy quote

• This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
  A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
  Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
  An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
  And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
  These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
  Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
  Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
  That stretch their duty nicely.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Mind, Crafts

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: The Choice Sayings of His Principal Characters, Analytically and Alphabetically Arranged”, p.38

  53 Copy quote

• A book? O, rare one,
  Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
  Nobler than that it covers.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, World, Garments

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.358

  4 Copy quote

• I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Remember, Macbeth Play

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Macbeth”, p.59

  6 Copy quote

• Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Counterfeit

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [83]

  4 Copy quote

• Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

  William Shakespeare

  Reflection, Men, Joy

  11 Copy quote

• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

  88 Copy quote

• I wish you well and so I take my leave,
  I Pray you know me when we meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Wish, Praying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.184

  4 Copy quote

• The hideous god of war.

  William Shakespeare

  War, God Of War, Hideous

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The works of Shakespeare, with corrections and illustr. from various commentators”, p.125

  4 Copy quote

• I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

  William Shakespeare

  Hammers, World, May

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.380

  7 Copy quote

• I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fear, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 13

  7 Copy quote

• So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Breathing, House, Way

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

  8 Copy quote

• Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare”, p.133

  4 Copy quote

• Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Equality, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 246

  7 Copy quote

• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

  63 Copy quote

• Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Deeds, Ill

  "The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare".

  4 Copy quote

• Remember thee!
  Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
  In this distracted globe.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Ghost, Remember

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

  4 Copy quote

• I am as true as truth's simplicity,
  And simpler than the infancy of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Simplicity, Infancy

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Miguel de Cervantes

Anne Hathaway

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Christopher Marlowe

Moliere

Elizabeth I

Edgar Allan Poe