William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 70

• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Bait, Opinion

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• O, let my books be then the eloquence
  And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
  Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
  More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Dumb, Tongue

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• For the success,
  Although particular, shall give a scantling
  Of good or bad unto the general;
  And in such indexes, although small pricks
  To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
  The baby figure of the giant mass
  Of things to come at large.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Book, Giving

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 343

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• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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• A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Hands, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, William Hazlitt, Isaac Reed (1851). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.358

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• So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
  To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Care, Afar

  William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Greatness, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.123

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• That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
  Like him that travels I return again,
  Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Return, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2863, Oxford University Press

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• Wish chastely, and love dearly.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wish, And Love

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. The winter's tale”, p.127

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• If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

  William Shakespeare

  Wit, Ifs

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”, p.109

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

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• Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Inequality, Seems

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.181

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• Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Jewels

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.306

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• So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Self, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2874, Oxford University Press

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• Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Wish

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.927

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• Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Oil, Snuff

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press

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• I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Thank God, Giddy

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• He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Judgement, Distracted

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.361, A&C Black

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• What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Beast

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32

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• The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Folks, Chronicles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Share, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.2121, BookBaby

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• The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Violent, Expeditions

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

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