William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 72

• Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Foxes, Tricks

  1596-7 Worcester. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.9-11.

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• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Teeth, Noble

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

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• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Gold, Worship

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• Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wickedness

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• Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Dignity, Sovereignty

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Chance

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene 4, l. 548

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• The people are the city.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, People

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.4153, Simon and Schuster

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• Lions make leopards tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Leopards, Lions

  1595 Richard. Richard II, act 1, sc.1, l.174.

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• Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Choices, Rich

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.215

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• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

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• Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Frightened, Furious

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Antony and Cleopatra In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.317, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Docks, Losing, Hateful

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

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• I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Body, Fool

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)”, p.241, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Two, Ears

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.37

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• Our content Is our best having.

  William Shakespeare

  Contentment

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1808). “King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.252

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• If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Boys, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Harold James Oliver (1999). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Wages, Praise

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: the choice sayings of his principal characters analytically and alphabetically arranged”, p.290

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• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Secret, Mind, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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• He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Reputation, Poor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Waiting, Advice

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• Though now this grained face of mine be hid
  In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
  And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
  Yet hath my night of life some memory,
  My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
  My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Winter, Night

  William Shakespeare (2003). “The Comedy of Errors”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Anger, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.500

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• Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.531

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• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Honey, Appetite

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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