William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 90

• You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Bears, Looks

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer (1799). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens”

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• If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1859). “Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays”

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Philosophical, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Light, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.154

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• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Patient, Ministers

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Men, Cruelty

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells, Hasty

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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• Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Wife

  1598 Benedick to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.121-2.

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• I have thrust myself into this maze,
  Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, May, Mazes

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.187, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Fool

  1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

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• The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Hebrew, Kind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, Siege

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Princes have but their titles for their glories,
  An outward honor for an inward toil;
  And, for unfelt imaginations,
  They often feel a world of restless cares.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Honor, Toil

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

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• Nature does require her times of preservation.

  William Shakespeare

  Environmental, Doe, Stewardship

  1613 Wolsey to Henry. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.147-8.

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• Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

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• On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
  Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
  Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
  As is the difference betwixt day and night
  The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
  Begins his golden progress in the east.

  William Shakespeare

  Team, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

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• Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
  Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Eye

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
  And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
  As infants empty of all thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Attachment

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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• The heavenly-harness'd team
  Begins his golden progress in the east.

  William Shakespeare

  Team, Twilight, Sunrise

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.318

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• The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, Sun

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Travelers must be content.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Traveler

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

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• For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Sleep, Watches

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [287]

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