William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 39

• This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate, Violent, Hamlet Love

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet. Hamlet, act 2, sc.1, l.103-5.

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• Time is like a fashionable host
  That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
  And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
  Grasps in the comer.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Guests

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• Hang those that talk of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.222

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

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• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny, Assurance

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 83

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• 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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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Law

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Men, Common

  1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act1, sc.2, l.271-2.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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