William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 143

• 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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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Worst, Foe

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

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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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• Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

  William Shakespeare

  Pie, Age, Porridge

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

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• Pray, do not mock me.
  I am a very foolish fond old man,
  Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
  And, to deal plainly,
  I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  1605-6 Lear to Cordelia. King Lear, act 4, sc.6, l.52-6.

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fighting, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Anger is like
  A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
  Self-mettle tires him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Anger, Self

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Gordon McMullan (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.223, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Architecture, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1857). “Shakespere's Werke”

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• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
  No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
  But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?
  O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
  Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
  Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
  A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
  To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mean, Knives

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.149

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• What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Feet, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Giving, House

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

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• For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

  William Shakespeare

  Youth, Faster, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I”, p.291

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• A woman's fitness comes by fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Fit, Caprice

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Cymbeline”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

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• Speak, what trade art thou?
  Why, sir, a carpenter.
  Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
  What does thou with thy best apparel on?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Aprons, Doe

  Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.3, Orient Blackswan

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• Love and meekness, lord,
  Become a churchman better than ambition:
  Win straying souls with modesty again,
  Cast none away.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Winning, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.237, BookCaps Study Guides

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