William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 125

• Holy, fair, and wise is she;
  The heaven such grace did lend her,
  That she might admired be.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Heaven, Grace

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
  Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
  Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
  Muffle your false love with some show of blindness;
  Let not my sister read it in your eye;
  Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
  Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
  Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
  Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
  Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
  Be secret-false.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kindness, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

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• And do so, love, yet when they have devised
  What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,
  Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized
  In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
  And their gross painting might be better used
  Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Might, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Sonnets and Narrative Poems”, p.101, Everyman's Library

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• Is she kind as she is fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Kind, Fairs

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
  Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
  Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Dragons, Standards Set

  1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.

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• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
  For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
  The ornament of beauty is suspect,
  A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Air, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

  William Shakespeare

  Arms, Fairness, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.112, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As I hope
  For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
  With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
  The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
  Our worser genius can, shall never melt
  Mine honour into lust, to take away
  The edge of that day's celebration,
  When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
  Or Night kept chain'd below.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Night, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1844). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone : with a Life of the Poet”, p.13

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• Fair Katherine, and most fair,
  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
  Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Ears

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.54, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Art, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.428

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• That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Breakfast, Lions

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.454

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cousin, May

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Pace, Dull

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [61]

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• I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Hair, Scratches

  1595 Bottom. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc.1, l.23-6.

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• Is not the truth the truth?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth

  William Shakespeare, Herbert Weil, Judith Weil (2007). “The First Part of King Henry IV”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flesh, Obesity

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [184]

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• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew, Rust

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 2, l. 59

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• So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Musical, Thunder

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dignity, Cupid

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226

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• The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Ostentation, Left

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The chameleon Love can feed on the air

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Air, Chameleon

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Self, Shapes

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.113

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