William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 89

• To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Anxiety, Cures, Worst

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.750

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• I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

  William Shakespeare

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [64]

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• How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Broke

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Ambition, Light

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.155, Classic Books Company

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• The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Office, Priorities

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 85

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• I am sure care's an enemy to life.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Enemy, Care

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

  William Shakespeare

  Health, Son, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2008). “The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True”, p.154, OUP Oxford

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Prayer, Ignorant

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Revenge, Humility

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• Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memories, Keys

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.221

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• As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Volunteer, Purpose

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Two

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Villainy

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.108

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• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

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• From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Book, Eye

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [350]

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• O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Excellent

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

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• O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
  Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
  When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
  Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Strong, Health

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving Up, Eye, Crafts

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions

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• Would I were in an alehouse in London.

  William Shakespeare

  Beer, London

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

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• This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Air, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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