William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 126

• Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Gold

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Celia. AsYou Like It, act1, sc.3, l.107-9.

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• They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Blast, Shakes

  1592-3 Margaret. Richard III, act1, sc.3, l.257-8.

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• What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Stronger, Arms

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Office, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Honour

  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.643

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• ... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Indecision

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 29

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• And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Judgment, Knows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 80

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• I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Hands

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Foundation, Killing

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Life and Death of King John”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.55

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• Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Nurse, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 1, sc. 3, l. 23

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• I may command where I adore.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, May, Adore

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [117]

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• Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Taming, Taming Of The Shrew

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. [82]

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Eagles, Bird

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Crowns, Temples

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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• Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Voice, Numbers

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Silence, Saying Nothing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Slander, Possession, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Deeds, Ends

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Boat, Sail

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus”, p.525

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• He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken

  William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Wish, Debt

  William Shakespeare, John Britton, Samuel Johnson, Charles Whittingham (1813). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Excellence, Use

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

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