William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 55

• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Maturity, Past

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• But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Men, Sometimes

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [243]

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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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• Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

  William Shakespeare

  Crooks, May, Knees

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

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• I came, saw, and overcame.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Saws

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [44].

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• When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Humor, Insight

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Julius Caesar Thrift Study Edition”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• We are such stuff that dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Made

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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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• Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Blood

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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• Love laughs at locksmiths.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.182, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Zealous, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage”, p.328

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• Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sight, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149

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• Besides, our nearness to the King in love
  Is near the hate of those love not the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Hate, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.288, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Kissing, Air

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.130, Penguin

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• Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Traitor, Cases

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

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• Men should be what they seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Character, Reflection

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.371

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• Seek happy nights to happy days.W

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Happy Day, Romeo And Juliet Play

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• I have drunk and seen the spider.

  William Shakespeare

  Drunk, Spiders

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.5577, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Desire, Her Beauty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

  William Shakespeare

  Pigeons, News, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.165, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, May

  William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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