William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 94

• Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Dad, Father

  William Shakespeare, L. A. Beaurline (1990). “King John”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• All hoods make not monks.

  William Shakespeare

  Appearance, Monk, Hood

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, Samuel Weller Singer, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.184

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• Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Corruption, Sweetest

  Sonnet 35

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• Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Tree, Stones

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Meals, Contempt

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Prosperity's the very bond of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Bonds Of Love, Prosperity

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

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• Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Reason, Prove

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Twelfth Night (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.51

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• So all my best is dressing old words new.

  William Shakespeare

  Dressings, New Words

  Sonnet 76

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• Women are angels, wooing:
  Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
  That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Angel, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Coward, Hardness

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

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• For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
  I have a truant been to chivalry;
  And so I hear he doth account me too.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Speak, Chivalry

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.108, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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• Milk-livered man,
  That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
  Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
  Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
  Fools do those villains pity who are punished
  Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
  France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
  With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
  Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
  'Alack, why does he so?']

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Men

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• Between the acting of a dreadful thing
  And the first motion, all the interim is
  Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Acting, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• If little faults proceeding on distemper
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
  When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
  Appear before us?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Drinking, Eye

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
  Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
  Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
  Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The breach of custom
  Is breach of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Breach, Customs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.28

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• What man dare, I dare.
  Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
  The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
  Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
  Shall never tremble.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Nerves, Shapes

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

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• Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
  Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
  That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
  Without our grace, our love, our benison.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Childhood, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Yon grey lines
  That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Dawn, Lines

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.67

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• Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
  The eating canter dwells, so eating love
  Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Decay, Eating

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• For what I will, I will, and there an end.

  William Shakespeare

  Decision, Resolution, Ends

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.96

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• Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

  William Shakespeare

  Sick, Despair, World

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.101, Palgrave Macmillan

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