William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 69

• O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Father, Distrust

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [161]

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• By-and-by is easily said.

  William Shakespeare

  Delay, Said

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [411]

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• Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Light, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Shrews

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Devil, Dresses

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• O war! thou son of Hell!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Son, Hell

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Together, Care

  'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

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• He does me double wrong
  That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Tongue, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

  William Shakespeare

  Actors, Faults, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37

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• A fool's bolt is soon shot.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Shots, Folly

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's [!] Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes ...”, p.175

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• Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Son, Guests

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

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• Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Book, Heart

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• Besides, they are our outward consciences,
  And preachers to us all, admonishing
  That we should drew us fairly for our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Ends, Should, Preacher

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.359

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• The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Invisible, Cupid

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

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• Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

  William Shakespeare

  Fruit, Firsts, Ripe Fruit

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.297

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• How much an ill word may empoison liking!

  William Shakespeare

  Gossip, May, Slander

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Midsummer, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
  Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Affair

  1599 Cassius to Brutus. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.95-6.

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, World, Buffets

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• We must not stint
  Our necessary actions in the fear
  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
  Than vainly longing.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Longing

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Acting, Speak

  1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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