William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 110

• Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grease, Mind

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear”, p.268

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• You know that love
  Will creep in service where it cannot go.

  William Shakespeare

  Creeps, Knows

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.127

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• O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Fawns

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Maids, Tongue

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Sin will pluck on sin.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Pluck

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

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• Mechanic slaves
  With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
  Uplift us to the view.

  William Shakespeare

  Uplifting, Views, Hammers

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
  With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Art, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

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• Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Levels, Blank

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• Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Night, Toil

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

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• The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
  Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
  Advantaging their loan with interest
  Of ten times double gain of happiness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Pearls, Gains

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.468

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• Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say
  My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,
  Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Knights, Water

  William Shakespeare (1807). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.416

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• The southern wind
  Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
  And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
  Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Play, Southern

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.743, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A woman's thought runs before her actions.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Action

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.761, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Spring Time, Faster

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce (1857). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.141

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• Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, Lying, Home

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• Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
  Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
  Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
  More free from peril than the envious court?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Woods

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

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• How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Easy, Form

  William Shakespeare (1794). “Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale”, p.212

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• Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Habit, Potency

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

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• It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Dignity, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.492

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• The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Reason

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.132

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• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

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• As for my wife,
  I would you had her spirit in such another;
  The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle
  You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Pace, World

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

  William Shakespeare

  Festivals, Rhyming, Born

  1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

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• Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
  To courtship and such fair ostents of love
  As shall conveniently become you there.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtship, Merry, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.357

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• A woman impudent and mannish grown
  Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Men

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.567

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