William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 72

• 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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• Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Horse, Adages

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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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• Faults that are rich are fair.

  William Shakespeare

  Faults, Rich, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.489

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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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• Making night hideous.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Hideous

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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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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• Nor age so eat up my invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Invention

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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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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• To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Angry

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..”, p.1101

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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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• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Apparitions, I Can

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

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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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• Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Appreciation, Men, Prize

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension.

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure, Apprehension

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• The Thane of Cawdor lives,
  A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
  Stands not within the prospect of belief,
  No more than to be Cawdor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Gentleman, Belief

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.316

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