William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 96

• Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Blood, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

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• In limited professions there's boundless theft.

  William Shakespeare

  Theft, Profession, Boundless

  "Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.

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• A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

  William Shakespeare

  Gloves, May, Sides

  William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.255

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• Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

  William Shakespeare

  Rebel, Youth

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Charity

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1519, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Eye, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

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• Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare (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.533

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• Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Trying, Done

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.354

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• I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

  William Shakespeare

  Answers, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (1847). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.219

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• I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Suffering, Quality

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear”, p.184

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• The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Judgment, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.159

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• I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Humanity, Made

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Dare

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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• And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Fearless, Mind, Crowns

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.8, l.62.

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• Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Eruption, Strange

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sparks, Hard

  William Shakespeare, Michael Henry RANKIN (1841). “The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin”, p.140

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• Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Shame, Stealth

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.746, Oxford University Press

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• Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Tree, Stones

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Meals, Contempt

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Bonds Of Love, Prosperity

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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• Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Prove

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Twelfth Night (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.51

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• So all my best is dressing old words new.

  William Shakespeare

  Dressings, New Words

  Sonnet 76

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• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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