Authors:

William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 136

All Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acting Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anger Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Army Art Atheism Attitude Authority Autumn Balance Beauty Beer Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Bliss Boat Bones Boredom Bravery Business Caring Challenges Change Chaos Character Charity Chastity Childhood Children Choices Christianity Christmas Church Communication Compassion Confidence Confusion Conscience Contentment Cooking Corruption Country Courage Courtship Creation Creativity Crime Cynicism Dad Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devil Dignity Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Encouraging Envy Equality Eternity Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Fairness Faith Falling In Love Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Fear Of Death Feelings Fighting Flattery Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Fun Funeral Funny Future Generosity Genius Gentleness Giving Glory God Gold Goodbye Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief Grieving Growth Guilt Halloween Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Hilarious History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Injury Innocence Insanity Insomnia Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jealousy Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Killing Kindness Kissing Knowledge Labor Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Listening Literature Losing Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lust Lying Madness Magic Marriage Memorial Day Memories Mercy Military Moderation Modesty Money Moon Morning Mortality Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Nature Navy Negotiation Obedience Obesity Offense Office Opportunity Pain Painting Parenting Passion Past Patience Peace Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preparation Pride Procrastination Prophet Prosperity Protest Purpose Quality Rage Rain Reading Reflection Religion Reputation Respect Retirement Revenge Revolution Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Royalty Running Sad Sadness Safety School Science Self Love Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sisterhood Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smile Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Speed Sports Spring Strength Study Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Swearing Sympathy Taxes Teaching Team Temperance Temptation Terror Thankfulness Theatre Tigers Time Time Management Trade Tragedy Travel True Love Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Uncertainty Understanding Unrequited Love Victory Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Work Worship Writing Youth
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

1597-8 Henry, receiving good news when ill. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.103-4.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2154, Oxford University Press

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.756

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.311

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing

Women's weapons, water-drops.

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

I had as lief have been myself alone.

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

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.171, Palgrave Macmillan

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.

William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.2846, e-artnow

The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.462

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

William Shakespeare (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard”

O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1”, p.525

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.158, Cengage Learning EMEA

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.43, Palgrave Macmillan

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press