William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 59

• The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
  And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Dove, Worms

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.233, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
  'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Weakness, Avoided

  1592 Margaret. HenryVI PartThree, act 5, sc.4, l.37-8.

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• The thing of courage
  As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
  And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
  Retorts to chiding fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Keys, Self

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

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• If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Elephants

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

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• What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flattery, Drink

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ties, Loathing

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Grief, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

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• Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
  Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
  That may discover such integrity.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Writing, Feelings

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.90

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• But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Science

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

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• What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Mines

  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.224

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• My love admits no qualifying dross

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dross, Qualifying

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.298, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Let's meet as little as we can

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Party, Science

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Hot, Deaf

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Atheism, Reign, Strife

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Direct not him whose way himself will choose;
  'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Advice, Way, Breaths

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.256

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• Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

  William Shakespeare

  Journey, Age, Earth

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (écrivain) (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.71

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• I would not lose so great an honor
  As one man more methinks would share with me
  For the best hope I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  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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• Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
  die.

  William Shakespeare

  Mortality, Certain, Dies

  1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.

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• Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

  William Shakespeare

  Keys, Long, Moderation

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• I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Innocence, Accusation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Dream, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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