William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 151

• I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Inward

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXVIii”

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• Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dresses, Fancy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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• I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Empty, Made

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sight, Might

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre”, p.198

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• Live how we can, yet die we must.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dies

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Eye, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 86

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• Make passionate my sense of hearing.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Passionate, Hearing

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Every cloud engenders not a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Perspective, Storm

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.660, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

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• To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Two, Let Me

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6623, Delphi Classics

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Eagles, Bird

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Crowns, Temples

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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• Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

  William Shakespeare

  Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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• Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Voice, Numbers

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Silence, Saying Nothing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• 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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