William Shakespeare Quotes About House

• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, War

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

• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Tears, Venus

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

• Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Oysters, House

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.827, BookCaps Study Guides

• Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Play, House

  1600-1 Hamlet, of Polonius. Hamlet, act 3, sc.1, l.134-5.

• A plague on both your houses.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Plague

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.137, Heinemann

• So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Breathing, House, Way

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

• Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, House, Plot

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [41]

• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

• My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, House, Ancestor

  1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Suicidal

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.16, l.82-4.

• He hath eaten me out of house and home.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, House

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

• Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Night, House

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]

• Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Murder

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Flames, House

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

• There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

  William Shakespeare

  House, Temples, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

• You take my house when you do take the prop
  That doth sustain my house; you take my life
  When you do take the means whereby I live.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Mean, Punishment

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

• I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Brother, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [257]

• War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Dark, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

• He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

  William Shakespeare

  Party, House, Pieces

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.264, A&C Black

• Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Giving, House

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

• Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, House, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

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