William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 82

• How long a time lies in one little word?

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Long, Littles

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 213

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
  And after summer evermore succeeds
  Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
  So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

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• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Tyrants, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

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• O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, School, Littles

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Spirit

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

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• Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,
  Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear
  Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Politics, Politician

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1806). “King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II”, p.189

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• I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
  My absence doth neglect no great design
  Which by my presence might have been concluded.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Design, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

  William Shakespeare

  Distance, Blow, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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• An overflow of good converts to bad.

  William Shakespeare

  Overflow, Converting

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

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• Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Astrology, Birth

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren (1998). “Cymbeline”, p.236, Oxford University Press

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