William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 57

• For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

  William Shakespeare

  Firm

  William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.183, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Captains, Fool

  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.149

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• We should hold day with the Antipodes,
  If you would walk in absence of the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Sun, Absence

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (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.145

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• Beauty, wit,
  High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
  Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
  To envious and calumniating time.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Desert

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Worst

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
  And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Youth, Brows

  Sonnet 60

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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• Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
  And every godfather can give a name.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Names, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.345

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• Faith, I have been a truant in the law
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Has Beens

  1592 Suffolk. Henry VI Part One, act 2, sc.4, l.7-9.

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Courage

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
  For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
  Must kiss their own feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Kissing, Journey

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.267

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• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

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• If is a custom,
  More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Observance, Breach

  William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Light

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• Men that hazard all
  Do it in hope of fair advantages:
  A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Hazards

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Soul, Promise

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 115

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• Good reasons must of force give place to better.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Reason, Force

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 202

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• Be just, and fear not.
  Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
  Thy God's and truth's.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Ends, Fear Not

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
  To pray for them that have done scathe to us.

  William Shakespeare

  Done, Praying, Christianity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

  William Shakespeare

  England, Common, Good Things

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [244]

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• I'll never
  Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
  As is a man were author of himself
  And knew no other kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Independence, Instinct

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 34

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