William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 60

• 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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• 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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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Party, Loser

  1597-8 Archbishop ofYork. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.1, l.315-17.

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• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Travel, Fool

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.25-7.

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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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• Love goes toward love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, True Love, Love You

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

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• I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Faces, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

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• For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Shrews, Born

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Mean, Light

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

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• 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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