William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 95

• Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Government, Royalty

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 3, l. [46]

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• Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Use, Fairy

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

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• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Past all shame, so past all truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Shame, Falsehood

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• Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
  That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
  Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
  The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
  The royal banner, and all quality,
  Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

  William Shakespeare

  War, Farewell, Ambition

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

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• And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell
  Till half an hour hence.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Heart, Mind

  William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1883). “Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes”

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• If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, May, Fancy

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.187

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• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Meditation, Fancy, Maidens

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Wavering, Longing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• Tis better using France than trusting France;
  Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
  Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
  And with their helps only defend ourselves;
  In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sea, Safety

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

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• Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
  With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;
  For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

  William Shakespeare

  Dragons, Golden, Fruit

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
  And follows but for form,
  Will pack, when it begins to rain,
  And leave thee in a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Storm, Gains

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.144, Classic Books Company

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• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Being Free

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

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• Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

  William Shakespeare

  Gold

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.264, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Men, Wings

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.365

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• Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Perfect Woman, One Woman

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”

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• To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Grace, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.169

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• When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Measure For Measure

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Taming of the shrew. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Winter's tale. All's well that ends well”, p.193

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• An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Sugar, Honey

  1599-1600 Touchstone toAudrey. AsYou Like It, act 3, sc.3, l.26-7.

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• What's the news?
  None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,
  Then is doomsday near.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, News, World

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• The due of honor in no point omit.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dues, No Point

  William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

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• If I lose my honor,
  I lose myself: better I were not yours
  Than yours so branchless.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Ifs, Loses

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• Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
  To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
  Suppose the singing birds musicians,
  The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
  The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
  Than a delight measure or a dance;
  For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
  The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

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