William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 160

• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Business, Delight

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

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• Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Calumny, Scapes

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Adversity, Light

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1854). “The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]”, p.19

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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Eulogy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

  William Shakespeare

  Funeral, Meat, Denmark In Hamlet

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Party, Joy, Tables

  William Shakespeare (1912). “Every Day with Shakespeare”

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• Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

  William Shakespeare

  Wit, Defence, Muster

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Grace, Alive

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

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• I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Lips, Found

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.229, Heinemann

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• O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Daggers, Fancy

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• How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Taste, Waste

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet”, p.276

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• Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

  William Shakespeare

  Late, Known

  "Romeo and Juliet".

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Kissing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• We will have rings and things and fine array

  William Shakespeare

  Shrews, Taming Of The Shrew, Fine

  1593 Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 2, sc.1, l.319-20.

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• The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Cracks, Citizens

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.260

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• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Doubt

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

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• Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Bereavement, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.369

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• This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Doe, Chance

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Thinking, Errors

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides

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• This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Magic, Sound

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, act 5, sc.1, l.54-7.

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• For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sick, Bitter Cold

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 8

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• Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

  William Shakespeare

  Aids, Form, Vendetta

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Sweet, Hands

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 375

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• Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Use, Doers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

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