William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 112

• Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Voice, Giving

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Brain

  1594-5 King, of Armado. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.162-5.

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• Every great drama has its foreshadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Drama

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• In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Modesty, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100

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• Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Ideas, Brain

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

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• Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Self, Soul

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• It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.

  William Shakespeare

  Ties, Answers, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.356

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• To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Hands, Rich

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.748, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Records, Wipe

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

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• When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Action, Trouble

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• For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Hot, Youth

  1599-1600 Adam to Orlando. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.3, l.48-53.

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• Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
  But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Hands, Fortune

  1597-8 Henry, receiving good news when ill. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.103-4.

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• You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
  And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
  It will inflame you, it will make you mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mad, Feelings

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [148]

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• Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Boys

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend
  From jealousy!

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Prayer, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2154, Oxford University Press

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• I will through and through
  Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world,
  If they will patiently receive my medicine.

  William Shakespeare

  Medicine, World, Body

  William Shakespeare (1868). “As You Like it”, p.29

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• One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
  Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Lust, Murder

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.756

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• So may I, blind fortune leading me,
  Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
  And die with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Missing, Risk

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

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• Value dwells not in particular will;
  It holds his estimate and dignity
  As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
  As in the prizer.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity, Wells, Brave New World Character

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.311

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• Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Politics

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

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• Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
  All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Land, Greed

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.43, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I would with such perfection govern, sir,
  T'excel the golden age.

  William Shakespeare

  Government, Perfection, Age

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Tempest”, p.25

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• I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
  The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
  I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

  William Shakespeare

  Duplicity, Secret, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,
  And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Rumor

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• My endeavors
  Have ever come too short of my desires.
  Yet filed with my abilities.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Politics, Too Short

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations”, p.252

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