William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 91

• If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Husband, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.525, Wordsworth Editions

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• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Husband, Niece

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Goes On, Crutches

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.

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• When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, the Whole of His Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes Compiled from Various Commentators”, p.122

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• O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Looks, Midsummer

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• And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Two, Together

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1786). “The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens...”

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• so full of shapes is fancy

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Fancy

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Sweet, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

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• Tempt not a desperate man

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Men

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 59

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• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Jealous, Eye

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Lying, Team

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Violet

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

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• O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonderful, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [202]

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• Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

  William Shakespeare

  Dinner, Double Meaning, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Much ado about nothing with essential questions”, p.85, Lulu.com

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• Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

  William Shakespeare

  Bending, Fool, Lips

  Sonnet 116

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• I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fate, Mind

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.38

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• I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sound, Earth

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

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• For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Mirrors, Should

  William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Athens, New Friends

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.189

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• Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Pity, Policy

  1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.

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• ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Body, Foxes

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.107, Hackett Publishing

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• Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Veins, Speak

  1596-7 Bassanio to Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.175-6.

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