William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Treasure, Forget, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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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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• Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Oysters, House

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.827, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Sassy, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.346, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Good Man

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.24

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• Comets importing change of times and states,
  Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
  And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Sky, Crystals

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.928, Oxford University Press

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• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Decision

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

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• If there is a good will, there is great way.

  William Shakespeare

  Way, Good Will, Ifs

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

  William Shakespeare

  Butterfly, Ebb And Flow, Laughing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
  And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Kissing, Pay

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.899

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• England is safe, if true within itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Safe, England, Ifs

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.482

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Reflection, Glasses

  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.691

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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
  So do our minutes hasten to their end;
  Each changing place with that which goes before,
  In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Toil, Wave

  Sonnet 60

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