William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 129

• For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Bird, Owl

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

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• Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

  William Shakespeare

  True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• For I am nothing if not critical.

  William Shakespeare

  Critics, Critical, Ifs

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 118

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• A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

  William Shakespeare

  Culture, Poor, My Own

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• Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Long, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, Mouths, Lines

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Chance, Planning, Exposure

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

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• The truest poetry is the most feigning.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry Is, Touchstones, Feigning

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”

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• I can no longer live by thinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Live By, I Can

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• Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

  William Shakespeare

  Rebel, Youth

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Charity

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1519, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

  William Shakespeare

  Secure, Wounds

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

  William Shakespeare

  Worst, Climbs, Cease

  William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.92

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• The insolence of office.

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Insolence

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, One Day, Upbraid

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.329

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• Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.581

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• Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

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• No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Imperfection, Reckoning, Made

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 74

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Birth, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Venice, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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• O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Age, Should

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• Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Lordship, Smack

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [111]

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• The thorny point
  Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
  Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
  And know some nurture.

  William Shakespeare

  Civility, Courtesy, Smooth

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

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• Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtesy, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]

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