Memorable Quotes - Page 16

• How use doth breed a habit in a man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Use, Habit

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 1

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sight, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Scene, States

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Causes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.498

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• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Windsor, Dickens

  1597-8 Mistress Page.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.2, l.16.

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• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Has Beens

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.3

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• Their understanding
  Begins to swell and the approaching tide
  Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
  That now lie foul and muddy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Understanding, Tides

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.63

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• For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Ears, Argument

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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Painting, Enough

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [150]

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• Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Mars, Malcontent

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments: love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Mind, Wedding Ceremony

  Sonnet 116

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• Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Daggers, Bigger

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.295

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• Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Youth, Wit

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Skins, Whole

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

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• I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Bloody

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. [221]

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• This England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Feet, Proud

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
  Make instruments to plague us.

  William Shakespeare

  Full Circle, Vices, Instruments

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

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• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Noble, Likes

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity, Great Ones

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• My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, Shylock

  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.24

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• Though inclination be as sharp as will,
  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
  And, like a man to double business bound,
  I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
  And both neglect.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Business, Men

  William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

  William Shakespeare

  Merriment

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Heaven

  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.347

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• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Great Love, Heaven, May

  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.30

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• It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Beast

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Hanmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.9

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