William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 101

• A rotten case abides no handling.

  William Shakespeare

  Rotten, Cases

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.283

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• So all my best is dressing old words new.

  William Shakespeare

  Dressings, New Words

  Sonnet 76

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• Tis better using France than trusting France;
  Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
  Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
  And with their helps only defend ourselves;
  In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sea, Safety

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

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• Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
  With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;
  For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

  William Shakespeare

  Dragons, Golden, Fruit

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
  And follows but for form,
  Will pack, when it begins to rain,
  And leave thee in a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Storm, Gains

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.144, Classic Books Company

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• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Being Free

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

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• Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

  William Shakespeare

  Gold

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.264, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Men, Wings

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.365

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• Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Perfect Woman, One Woman

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”

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• To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grace, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.169

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• When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Taming of the shrew. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Winter's tale. All's well that ends well”, p.193

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• An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Sugar, Honey

  1599-1600 Touchstone toAudrey. AsYou Like It, act 3, sc.3, l.26-7.

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• What's the news?
  None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,
  Then is doomsday near.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, News, World

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• The due of honor in no point omit.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dues, No Point

  William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

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• Travelers must be content.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Traveler

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

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• One sin another doth provoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Provoking

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

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• Now the time is come,
  That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
  And let her head fall into England's lap.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Victory, Lap

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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• But virtue never will be mov'd,
  Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Shapes, Virtue

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.837

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• If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Thrifty, Ifs

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• Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Virtue, Amends

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

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• My heart laments that virtue cannot live
  Out of the teeth of emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Envy, Teeth

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

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• Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Virtue, Trumpets

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.263, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Welcome, Ceremony

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.169, Classic Books Company

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