William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 124

• 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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• Ah me, how weak a thing
  The heart of woman is!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart, Weak

  1599 Portia. Julius Caesar, act 2, sc.4, l.41-2.

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• Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Self, Niceness

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190

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• She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Anger, Speak

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Feelings, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612

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• Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Anger, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

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• O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sorrow, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

  William Shakespeare

  Appreciation, Blessed, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Purple, White

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  William Shakespeare, J. H. P. Pafford (1963). “The Winter's Tale: Second Series”, p.103, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Rose, Bud

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 39

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• I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, White, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.209, Classic Books Company

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• Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040

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• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Night, Doe

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 4, sc. 5, l. [237]

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• I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

  William Shakespeare

  Garlic, Cheese, Windmills

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [158]

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• Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Brave, Coward

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• Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Valentines Day, Falling In Love, Love You

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
  Doth glance from heaven to earth,
  From earth to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heaven, Rolling

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Taught, Important Macbeth

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

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• Let each man do his best.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  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.1393, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Purpose, Failing

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.577

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