William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 123

• You kiss by th' book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Kissing

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Romeo and Juliet: Third Series”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Ambition, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.131, Classic Books Company

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• Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hair, White

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sailor, Bowels

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yarn, Despair

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Change, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

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• . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sympathy, Leaving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.

  William Shakespeare

  Pay, Suits, Strife

  William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed”, p.61

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• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 114

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• O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Men, Might

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 123

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• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Haste, Glory

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

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• That strain again! It had a dying fall:
  O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
  That breathes upon a bank of violets,
  Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
  'Tis not so sweet as it was before.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Fall

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Kings, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1837). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”

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• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Eye

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Tardiness

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Giving

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [252]

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• No worse a husband than the best of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Best Of Me

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.681

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• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Charity, Curse

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Scotch, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Faces, Shoulders

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.91-3.

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• By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Soldier, Shadow

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 217

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• GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Humility, Night, Odds

  William Shakespeare (2004). “King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.36, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Fire, Soul

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 7, l. 46

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• Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Wells, Saved

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

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