William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 137

• He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Hours, Stage

  "Macbeth".

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• Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Truth, Goes On

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.194

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• Put money in thy purse.

  William Shakespeare

  Purses

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [345]

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• But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Purpose

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare (2009). “William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar”, p.132, Infobase Publishing

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• Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tempest, Awake

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Towns, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

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• And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Two, Together

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1786). “The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens...”

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• so full of shapes is fancy

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Fancy

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Sweet, Lying

  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.186

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• Tempt not a desperate man

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Men

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 59

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• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Jealous, Eye

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Violet

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

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• Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Mountain, Command

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Tempest (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.38, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Juliet, Ill

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.197, Classic Books Company

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• for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Grief, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.71-3.

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• Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Murder

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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• What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Night, Hair

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

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• It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Night, Names

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Ears

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.429

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• Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Nice, Customs

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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• Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

  William Shakespeare

  Our Generation, Generations, Kind

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

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