William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 118

• I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Emotional, Feelings

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 122

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Abuse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Glory, Touched

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, East, West

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

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• My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Hands, Human Nature

  Sonnet 111

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• There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Causes

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. [3]

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• Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1853). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete”, p.235

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• Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Good Luck, Luck

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.414

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• As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Giving, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

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• Within the book and volume of thy brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Brain, Volume

  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.1152

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Brain

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.4, l.96-8.

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• Be just, and fear not.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Justice, Anxiety

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Childhood, Anxiety

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 29

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• There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Personality, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.315

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• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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• My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, House, Ancestor

  1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

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• A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Winter, Sisterhood

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.238

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• The soul of this man is his clothes.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.147, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Advice, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1874). “The Shakespeare Argosy: Containing Much of the Wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit”, p.38

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• But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

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• He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Causes, Reputation, Fame

  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.104

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• They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.118

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• The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

  William Shakespeare

  Passing On, Two, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 17

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• She's good, being gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Sarcastic, Gone

  William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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