William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 95

• Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Spices, Shapes

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.577

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• First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Firsts, Witch

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.86

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• There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Men, Taught

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Teaching, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Behold the threaden sails,
  Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
  Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
  Breasting the lofty surge

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sea, Ships

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.723, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am ill at these numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Math, Numbers, Ill

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.213

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• Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Kissing, Light

  Sonnet 33

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• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Temptation, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459

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• O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

  William Shakespeare

  Couple, Fear, Heaven

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.92-7.

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• The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Littles, Sweetheart

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [65]

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Past, Best Things

  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.425

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• Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Jewelry, Lord

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [165]

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• Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Thieves, Stealing

  1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.

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• Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Medical, Antidote

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

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• 'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Pride

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Twilight, Sunset

  Sonnet 73

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• Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Compliment, Feigning

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [110]

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• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Father, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry, Tree, Teeth

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]”, p.147, Demitra Papadinis

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• Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Justice, Speak

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

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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