William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 9

• Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Shame

  1598-9 Bourbon, returning to the battle. HenryV, act 4, sc.5, l.19.

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• Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Happy Hour, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.197

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellent, Lows, Gentle

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]

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• Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Giving, Support

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• I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.59

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• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Action, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

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• The object of Art is to give life a shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Giving

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• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

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• Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

  William Shakespeare

  Vanity, Favors, Persons

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• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

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• The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Abuse, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.300

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• Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fear, Passion

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• What is past is prologue.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, History

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

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• Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, World, Sides

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3289, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Virtue, Amends

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• So every bondman in his own hand bears
  The power to cancel his captivity.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Captivity, Bears

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.30

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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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• Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Coal

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 65, l.387-8.

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• Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Trouble, Macbeth Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

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