William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 67

• Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Self, Sin

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• Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc.3, l.23-4.

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• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Tears, Venus

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

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• Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Tears

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.306, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The weakest goes to the wall.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Weakness, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

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• A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

  William Shakespeare

  Tables, Welcome, Dishes

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A good wit will make use of anything.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Wit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1372, Oxford University Press

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• Good words are better than bad strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Strokes, Good Words

  1599 Brutus to Octavius. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.29.

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• Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Hay, Fellows

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [37]

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• Some falls the means are happier to rise.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Mean

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• To persevere
  In obstinate condolement is a course
  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Persevere, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

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• And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
  Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew, Liquid, Youth

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• I will despair, and be at enmity
  With cozening hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Enmity

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• Hate pollutes the mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Mind

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• If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

  William Shakespeare

  Freedom, Liberty, Selfishness

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.98, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Now no way can I stray;
  Save back to England, all the world's my way.

  William Shakespeare

  Travel, World, Way

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.36

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• The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 20

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• The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
  videlicet, in a love-cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Years, World

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2009). “As You Like It”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
  Without a prompter.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Fighting, Should Have

  William Shakespeare (1792). “The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).”

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• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Travel, Pace

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [328]

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• 'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Sleep, Safety

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.641, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Death is a fearful thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Fearful

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• There's place and means for every man alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Alive

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.270, BookCaps Study Guides

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