William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 39

• I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Plays of Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes..”, p.68

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• Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, News, Tongue

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85

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• What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• To you your father should be as a god;
  One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
  To whom you are but as a form in wax,
  By him imprinted, and within his power
  To leave the figure or disfigure it.

  William Shakespeare

  Dad, Father, Form

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.8, Callisto Media Inc

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• Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Art, Action

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.104

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• A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Sorrow, Romeo And Juliet Love

  1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

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• Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Taming, Body

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.139, Book Jungle

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• I crave fit disposition for my wife;
  Due reference of place, and exhibition;
  With such accommodation, and besort,
  As levels with her breeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Exhibitions, Levels

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241

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• If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Ifs

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.404

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• I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Venice, Lips

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.295, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A tardiness in nature,
  Which often leaves the history unspoke,
  That it intends to do.

  William Shakespeare

  Tardiness, Diffidence

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.174, A&C Black

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• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hate, Determined

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28

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• Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Art, Glasses

  Sonnet 3

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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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• What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Night

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• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Yellow, Green

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, War

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mad, Matter

  William Shakespeare (1864). “Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare. The plays of Shakespeare, ed. and annotated by C. and M.C. Clarke, illustr. by H.C. Selous”, p.443

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• Be as thou wast wont to be.
  See as thou wast wont to see.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.43, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Pluck, Modest

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

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• What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Wish

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

  William Shakespeare

  Valentines Day, Saint, Maids

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Hamlet. Cymbeline”, p.281

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• Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
  The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
  And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
  Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
  Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Blow, Wind

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

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