William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 144

• Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Soul, England

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 3, l. 10

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• Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Should Have, Looks

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 295

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• Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
  The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Looks, Glances

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.1257, Delphi Classics

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• O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
  Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Doubt, Green Eyes

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.68

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• No .... holy father, throw away that thought.
  Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
  Can pierce a complete bosom.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Father, Believe

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.28

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• There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fellowship, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Tongue, Language

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

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• Ay, is it not a language I speak?

  William Shakespeare

  Language, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1832). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings”, p.676

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• When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Use, Decay

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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Agents, World

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 10, l. [36]

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• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cat, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

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• I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Medicine, Rogues

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Good counselors lack no clients.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Clients, Counselor

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.64, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Flower, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940

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• For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Bereavement

  Sonnet 30

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• O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Powerful, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2475, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

  William Shakespeare

  Depression, Grief, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Envy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

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• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  William Shakespeare

  Adders, Bright Days, Walking

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Night

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

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• For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

  William Shakespeare

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [409]

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• O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, War, Fall

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Anguish

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

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