William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 148

• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Slander, Possession, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Deeds, Ends

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Boat, Sail

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus”, p.525

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• He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken

  William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

  William Shakespeare

  Promise, Wish, Debt

  William Shakespeare, John Britton, Samuel Johnson, Charles Whittingham (1813). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Excellence, Use

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Vengeance, Virtue

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Eggs, Sides

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.139, Classic Books Company

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Home

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• Thou art a very ragged Wart.

  William Shakespeare

  Hilarious, Art, Warts

  William Shakespeare, Bowdler (1823). “The family Shakspeare”, p.247

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• I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

  William Shakespeare

  Hilarious, Purple, Mad

  "Henry the Fourth". Part One,

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• His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Shallow, Jest

  "King Henry V".

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• But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  William Shakespeare (1866). “Dicks' complete edition of Shakspere's Works: With 37 illustrations and a memoir”, p.191

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• You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]

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• Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Mad, Cupid

  "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

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• Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Book, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Heart

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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• Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Farewell, Gentleman

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• Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Night, Light

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• Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

  William Shakespeare

  Fun, Oddities, Mind

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• Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces

  "The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere".

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• Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Mean

  William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.58, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Goodness, Desdemona

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.

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