William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 81

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Stuff, Born

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

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• Can I go forward when my heart is here?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, My Heart, Romeo And Juliet Play

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.811

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• Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sorrow, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.134

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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