William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 51

• If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Shylock, Bears

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Events

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [377]

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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• Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Frost

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Memorable

  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.347

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• We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.78

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• A king of infinite space

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Philosophical, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells, Hasty

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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• He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Valor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• That which I would discover
  The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Law

  William Shakespeare, afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard) (1854). “The Comedies of William Shakespeare: Edited with Introductions and Notes ... by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the American Edition”, p.59

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• There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakup, Flames, Snuff

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.252, Nelson Thornes

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• Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, Ethics, Persons

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

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• Can we outrun the heavens?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Outrun

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• You are my true and honourable wife;
  As dear to me as the ruddy drops
  That visit my sad heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Heart, Wife

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Dreams are the children of idled minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Mind

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

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• Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Temperance, Appliances

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

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• I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Age, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Sea, Floating

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• Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Proud, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153

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• Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Grace

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 87

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• Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1823). “Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus”, p.119

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