William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 60

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Mind, Opal

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Deceit, World

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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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 will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Uncles, Eye

  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.138

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• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
  Pass'd over to the end they were created,
  Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
  Ah, what a life were this!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Years, White Hair

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.476

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
  Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
  Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
  Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Flower, Use

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• Reason thus with life:
  If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
  That none but fools would keep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fool, Reason

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, True Friend, Real

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

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• To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Real Friends, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.335

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Scar, Self Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

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• Plutus himself,
  That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
  Hath not in nature's mystery more science
  Than I have in this ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Science, Medicine

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• We were not born to sue, but to command.

  William Shakespeare

  Negotiation, Born, Command

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 196

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• You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Heart, Thankfulness

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1049, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
  And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
  And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Brotherhood, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1548, Oxford University Press

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• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Climbing

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.478

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• Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Excellence, Earth

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Imitation

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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• The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Passion, Gallantry

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• Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Tired, Cry

  Sonnet 66

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• What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Speechless, Sentences

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.233

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• All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Anticipation, Merchant Of Venice

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.92

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