William Shakespeare Quotes About Passion

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

• Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fear, Passion

• Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Sexy, Lying

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

• Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Passion, Finest

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.643

• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

• Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Fire, Sap

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.25

• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Revenge, Humility

• This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Men, Death Of A Friend

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.184

• I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
  Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
  Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
  For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
  But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
  Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Passion, Pride

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, World, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

• Friends now fast sworn,
  Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
  Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,
  Unseparable, shall within this hour,
  On a dissension of a doit, break out
  To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
  Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

• Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Soul, Tears

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

• Make passionate my sense of hearing.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Passionate, Hearing

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

• The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Passion, Gallantry

• Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [76]

• It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Wish, Trials

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

• Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Mean

  William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.58, Lorenz Educational Publishers

• Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Passion, Mistress

• This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Air

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 389

• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Venice, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

• The color of the king doth come and go,
  Between his purpose and his conscience,
  Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
  His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Passion, Color

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

• I prithee gentle friend,
  Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
  In this uncivil and unjust extent
  Against thy peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Listening, Unjust

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