William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 157

• I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tongue, Hold Me

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.290

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• Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
  Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Care, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Macbeth”, p.73, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
  If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
  A stranger to thy thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Ears, Stranger

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, p.384

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• O constancy, be strong upon my side,
  Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
  I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Heart, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

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• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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• Contention, like a horse,
  Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
  And bears down all before him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Bears, Broke

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.123

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• Live loath'd and long,
  Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
  Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
  You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
  Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Time Flies, Knees

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

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• The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
  Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Politics, Pluck

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
  Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Two, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.227, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• None can cure their harms by wailing them.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Wailing, Harm

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.131

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• Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Weight

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• Weep I cannot;
  But my heart bleeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, My Heart

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.267

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• What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Tunes, Minutes

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• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
  And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Mind, Degenerates

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

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• Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
  Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care
  Take hold on me; for my particular grief
  Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
  That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
  And it is still itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Bed

  1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.

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• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
  By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Late

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• He must needs go that the devil drives.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Devil, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Evil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.545

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• The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Devil, Bargains

  1596-7 Prince Harry. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.117-8.

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• Misery makes sport to mock itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Misery, Mock

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.870, Oxford University Press

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• The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Heaven, Bows

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• If money go before, all ways do lie open.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Lying, Way

  1597-8 Ford (as Brooke).The MerryWives ofWindsor, act 2, sc.2, l.164-5.

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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Crowns, Opinion

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.556

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