William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 76

• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Tents

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

  William Shakespeare

  Eggs, Shells, Eating

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.170, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Ribs, Eating, Rich

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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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• Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, One Day, Lions

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 44

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• Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces

  1596-7 Falstaff to Bardolph. Henry IV Part One, act 3, sc.3, l.23.

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• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Chaos

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

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• And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Heaven, Compare

  "The Winter's Tale".

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Foul, Fairs

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• He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wedding, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

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• Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  East, Sun, Juliet

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• They are but beggars that can count their worth.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceit, Beggar

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.297

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• He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Gone, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]

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• And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Bed, Death Bed

  "Hamlet".

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• There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.133, Insight Publications

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Lady Macbeth, Important Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.150, Classic Books Company

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• And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Blood, Band

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, May

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Enough, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Use, Fool

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  Sonnet 94

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