William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 80

• They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

  William Shakespeare

  Communication, Language, Stolen

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [39]

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• I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
  monster!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Laughing, Monsters

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1084, A&C Black

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• For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, World

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93

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• Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Desperate, Cures

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Persistence, Men, Ordinary

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Delight

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Baking, Lips

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.206

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• By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Offending, Soul, Honor

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

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• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Green, Docks

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

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• The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perfection, Crow

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Tongue, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Wine, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Good things should be praised.

  William Shakespeare

  Praise, Good Things, Should

  William Shakespeare (1792). “The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).”

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• I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.

  William Shakespeare

  Please

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Imperfection, Acting

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Done

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) dedication

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• That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.252, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fate, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Maids, December

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

  William Shakespeare

  Rome, Cassius, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [22]

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• There is nothing serious in Mortality

  William Shakespeare

  Serious, Mortality

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Forget, Romeo Juliet

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• How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Juliet, Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.816

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• But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Clouds, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21

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