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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 135

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Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

William Shakespeare
Temptation, Elbows

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?

William Shakespeare
Party, Mean, Pride
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1716, Oxford University Press

So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Curse, Complexion
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [22]

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

William Shakespeare
Majesty, Tongue, Rough
William Shakespeare (1874). “Works”, p.360

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

William Shakespeare
Three, Moments, Hours

She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare
'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 5, sc. 3, l. 78.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

William Shakespeare
Kings, Wall, Farewell
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.

William Shakespeare
Needs, Helping

Every great drama has its foreshadow.

William Shakespeare
Drama

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Modesty, Duty
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

William Shakespeare
Ideas, Brain
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Self, Soul

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.

William Shakespeare
Ties, Answers, Spirit
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.356

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Hands, Rich
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.748, BookCaps Study Guides

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Records, Wipe
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

William Shakespeare
Sea, Action, Trouble

For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Hot, Youth
1599-1600 Adam to Orlando. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.3, l.48-53.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

William Shakespeare
Life, Heaven, Comfort
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. [192]

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

William Shakespeare
Life, Men, Life Is
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.323

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

William Shakespeare
Life, Book, Fate
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 54

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

William Shakespeare
Life, Eye, Spy
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.375

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

William Shakespeare
Life, Mean, Punishment
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Stars, Father
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

William Shakespeare
Book, Reading, Sin
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.136

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