William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 70

• But I will be,
  A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
  As to a lover's bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Running, Bed

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 99

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• And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
  And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
  And thereby hangs a tale.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, You Like It, Hours

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 26

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• If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Love You, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [34]

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• Old Time the clock-setter.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Clock, Old Time

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

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• ... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Time, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

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• Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Writing, Ink

  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.173

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Long, Windsor

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• These blessed candles of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Night, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220

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• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Love Is, Lessons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

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• A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Hot, Cups

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 2, sc. 1, l. [52]

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• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Angel, Clouds

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Tides

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• This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Brain, Creation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Stupidity, Strange

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

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• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, World, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Sleep, Law

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Soul, Monsters

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 158

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• . . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Crowns

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Repent, Wells

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [5]

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• For there was never yet philosoper
  That could endure the toothache patiently,
  However they have writ the style of gods,
  And made a push at chance and sufferance.

  William Shakespeare

  Style, Endurance, Chance

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.109, Penguin

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• Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Blood

  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.431

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