William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 107

• Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Husband, Smell

  1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

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• Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

  William Shakespeare

  Medicine, Heaven, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.501

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• Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Looks, Woe

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy, Offense

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.167

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• Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

  William Shakespeare

  Curiosity

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare”, p.143

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• But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Clay, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.268

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• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity

  William Shakespeare (1861). “Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter”, p.70

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• Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.590

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• To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Nimble, Thunder

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

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• Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Lips, Philosopher

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night”, p.29

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• Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Saint, Use

  William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

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• For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grace, May

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [161]

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• 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

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• Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Waiting, Cold

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

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• A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

  William Shakespeare

  Gloves, May, Sides

  William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.255

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• It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Eye, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

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• Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.533

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• Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Trying, Done

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.354

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• I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

  William Shakespeare

  Answers, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (1847). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.219

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• I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Suffering, Quality

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear”, p.184

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• The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Judgment, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.159

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• I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Humanity, Made

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Dare

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.358

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• And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Fearless, Mind, Crowns

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.8, l.62.

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• Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Eruption, Strange

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

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