William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 127

• The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fall, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.641

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• Things past redress are now with me past care

  William Shakespeare

  Acceptance, Caring, Past

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171

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• What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Heart, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [256]

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• And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Idols

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.570

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• Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Deceit, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.115, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Deceit, Noses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

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• Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Deeds, Vanity And Pride

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

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• What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Grace, Gone

  1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

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• For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Deeds

  1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

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• Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Light

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

  William Shakespeare

  Black, Devil, Suits

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

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• Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Devil, Crosses

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

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• I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Littles, Holes

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

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• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Macbeth Play, Confined

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

  William Shakespeare

  Crow, True Beauty, Torches

  Hilary Burningham, William Shakespeare (1997). “Romeo & Juliet”, p.13, Evans Brothers

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• My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eagles, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Karl Klein (2001). “Timon of Athens”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Eagles

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

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• I almost die for food, and let me have it!

  William Shakespeare

  Eating, Let Me, Dies

  William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Envy, Half, Bears

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1257, Oxford University Press

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• Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Constant, Stills

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hands, Faces

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Men, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

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