William Shakespeare Quotes About Injury

• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Scar, Self Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

• To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.165, Classic Books Company

• He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.184, Palgrave Macmillan

• what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Injury, Mockery

• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Thieves

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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