William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 81

• I dote on his very absence.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Absence

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [117]

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• All the contagion of the south light on you,
  You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
  Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
  Further than seen, and one infect another
  Against the wind a mile!

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Rome, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

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• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Work, Plebeians

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

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• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Home, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

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• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

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• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
  Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
  Figures pedantical--these summer flies
  Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Three, Phrases

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  Sonnet 18

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• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Memorable, Heart

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• Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Dog, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”, p.567

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• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.438

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Mistress, Sound

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• There's such divinity doth hedge a king
  That treason can but peep to what it would.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kings And Queens, Divinity

  "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

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• That is honor's scorn
  Which challenges itself as honor's born
  And is not like the sire. Honors thrive
  When rather from our acts we them derive
  Than our foregoers.

  William Shakespeare

  Challenges, Honor, Born

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.565

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• Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
  many of my old acquaintance are dead!

  William Shakespeare

  Mad, Nostalgia, Mortality

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

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• Pardon's the word to all.

  William Shakespeare

  Pardon

  William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles (1801). “The much admired glee of Hark the lark, as introduced in the 2d act [of Cymbeline]”, p.332

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• Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

  William Shakespeare

  Solitude, Comfort, Sociable

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 4, sc.2, l.12-13.

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• Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Loss, Play

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Art, Spring

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

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• Much rain wears the marble.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Rain, Marble

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

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• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sin

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

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• I must be cruel, only to be kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Memorable, Be Kind

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178

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• Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Sweet, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.8759, BookCaps Study Guides

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