William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 109

• I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

  William Shakespeare

  Cracks, Break, Oath

  1607 Pericles to Helicanus. Pericles, sc.2, l.125-6.

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• When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Profanity, Swearing

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

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

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• The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Hebrew, Kind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, Siege

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

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• After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Death, Epitaph, Ill

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

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• Either our history shall with full mouth
  Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
  Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
  Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Speak, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

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• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Faults

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• Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Favors, Fortune

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• Fortune is merry,
  And in this mood will give us anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Giving, Mood

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [271]

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• Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
  This life is most jolly.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Hollies, Life Is

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• Friendship's full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Dregs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
  There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
  But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
  To one of woman born.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yield, Bears

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.883, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
  In least speak most, to my capacity.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Simplicity, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.310

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• Full of wise saws and modern instances.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Saws, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The gates of monarchs
  Are arched so high that giants may jet through
  And keep their impious turbans on without
  Good morrow to the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Giants, May, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.72, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by, and then his state
  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
  Into the main of waters.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Water, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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• All surfeit is the father of much fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Measure For Measure, Satiety

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Too Much, Taste

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Savages, Done

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• Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Pardon, Flats

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan, Marina Kastan (2000). “William Shakespeare”, p.32, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

  William Shakespeare

  Suggestions, Arms, Constant

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.384

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• To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
  But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Mercy, Defence

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.385

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• Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Marble

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.309, Oxford University Press on Demand

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