William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 93

• What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Hair, Given

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.194

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• The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lasts, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II”, p.260

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• What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Purpose, Propose

  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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• An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, People, Vulgar

  William Shakespeare, Mrs. Elizabeth MONTAGU (1772). “An Essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare. By Mrs. Montagu. ... Second edition”, p.61

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Together, Affliction

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

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• My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Night, Four

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.117, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

  William Shakespeare

  Authority, Mark, Minnows

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 3, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Weight, Pay

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Be Patient, Authority

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.25

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• Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Bachelors, Score

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [209]

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• I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

  William Shakespeare

  Ballet, Cry, Kitten

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [128]

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• I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Ballads, Doleful

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors”, p.267

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• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Break Through, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Thinking, Pieces

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.318, A&C Black

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• Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanks, Poor, Dear Friend

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

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• Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Results, Ill

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.159, Classic Books Company

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• What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Animal, Larks

  1593 Petruccio to Kate.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 4, sc.3, l.173-6.

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• Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Suits, Action, Tutor

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Youth, Thee

  'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

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• Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Blind, Reason, Cures

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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• Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Blood, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

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• In limited professions there's boundless theft.

  William Shakespeare

  Theft, Profession, Boundless

  "Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.

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