William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 85

• Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Men, Sheep

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works".

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• The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Instruction

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

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• Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Evil, Terrible

  William Shakespeare (1734). “The Second Part of Henry the Sixth: With the Death of the Good Duke Humphry : a Tragedy”, p.55

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• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Cutting, Night

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

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• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Bowels, Worms, Discord

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Youth, Grammar

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 7, l. [35]

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• He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Teeth, Ache

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 4, l. [176]

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Mars

  Macbeth II. 3

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• Pray you now, forget and forgive.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Memorable, Forgive And Forget

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.305, Classic Books Company

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• Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Shadow, Bliss

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 63

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• The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Joy, Violence

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

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• Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Together, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.27, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• A ministering angel shall my sister be.

  William Shakespeare

  Sister, Sibling, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]

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• GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Sea, Vapour

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

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• This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

  William Shakespeare

  Senior, Boys, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

  William Shakespeare

  World, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. [12]

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• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.687

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• For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tongue, Wonder

  Sonnet 106

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• I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
  But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
  Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Hot

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows”

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• Give me to drink mandragora.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Drink, Forgetfulness

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 4

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

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

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• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Men, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I cannot tell what you and other men
  Think of this life; but, for my single self,
  I had as lief not be as live to be
  In awe of such a thing as I myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men, Thinking

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

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