William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 132

• But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sex, Uncles

  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.193

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• O most delicate fiend!
  Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Delicate

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.338

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• Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
  Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
  Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Women, Angel

  William Shakespeare, George Richard Hibbard (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.204, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Two women placed together makes cold weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Weather, Two

  1613 Lord Chamberlain. Henry VIII, act1, sc.4, l.22.

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• Have you not heard it said full oft,
  A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Said, Heard

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.364, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,
  For what is in this world but grief and woe?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, World, Woe

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.507

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• What is aught but as 'tis valued?

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I would that I were low laid in my grave.
  I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

  William Shakespeare

  Made, Lows, Graves

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.37, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am declined
  Into the vale of years.

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Vapor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• For youth no less becomes
  The light and careless livery that it wears,
  Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
  Importing health and graveness.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Light, Age

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 77

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• The spirit of a youth
  That means to be of note, begins betimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Spirit, Youth

  William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1853). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; ... with ... Notes, and Scriptural References ... by the Rev. T. Price. ... Second Edition, Enlarged”, p.289

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• God defend the right.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1842). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.126

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• They that touch pitch will be defiled.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1855). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. 1855”, p.126

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• Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
  Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Wings, Mind

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• All is well ended, if the suit be won.

  William Shakespeare

  Suits, Wells, Ifs

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• We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fancy, Be A Man

  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.105

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• Our rash faults
  Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
  Not knowing them until we know their grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowing, Serious Things, Faults

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

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• The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Past, Welcome

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.233

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• What our contempts do often hurl from us,
  We wish it ours again.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Contempt

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.185

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• Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

  William Shakespeare

  Scapes, Thunderbolts

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra”, p.136, Classic Books Company

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• Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
  Still to remember wrongs?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Noble Man

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1786). “Coriolanus”, p.139

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• For there's no motion
  That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
  It is the woman's part.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vices

  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.499

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• Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Tired, Desert

  Sonnet 66

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• If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Devil

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671

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• Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Heart, My Heart

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXXIii”

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