William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 30

• Small things make base men proud.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Proud, Small Things

  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.261

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• Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Women, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.103, Heinemann

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• At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Lying, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakspere”, p.30

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• Drink down all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Drink, Unkindness

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Pouring, Henry V

  "Complete Works".

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• Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.

  William Shakespeare

  Holiday, Enough, Holiday Season

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.483

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• You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hug, Fawns

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.168, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Power, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

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• If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 4, l. 26

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• Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Assured, Thyself

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [315]

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• The head is not more native to the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Native

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 47

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• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  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.188, Cambridge University Press

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• I was a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Instinct

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [304]

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• There is a law in each well-ordered nation
  To curb those raging appetites that are
  Most disobedient and refractory.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Politics, Rage

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.126, Cambridge University Press

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• You are a tedious fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Fool, Tedious

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.87, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

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• That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.84

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• A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Noble

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.321

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• He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Bees, Worthy

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”

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• I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Laughing, Receiving

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

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• Death rock me asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Rocks

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”

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• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Doe, Fool

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1850). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play”, p.294

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• The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Opportunity, Yield

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.318, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Men, Venice

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