Authors:

William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 141

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
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

William Shakespeare
Thieves, Jugglers
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.326

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

William Shakespeare
Art, Drug, Apothecary

whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Hands, Drunk

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

William Shakespeare
Portugal, Affection, You Like It
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.204

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Party, Joy, Tables
William Shakespeare (1912). “Every Day with Shakespeare”

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare
Names, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

William Shakespeare
Night, Grace, Alive
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

I have drunk and seen the spider.

William Shakespeare
Drunk, Spiders
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.5577, BookCaps Study Guides

How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

William Shakespeare
Water, Taste, Waste
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet”, p.276

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

William Shakespeare
Late, Known
"Romeo and Juliet".

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

William Shakespeare
Stars, Eye, Kissing
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

We will have rings and things and fine array

William Shakespeare
Shrews, Taming Of The Shrew, Fine
1593 Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 2, sc.1, l.319-20.

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

William Shakespeare
Should Have, Cracks, Citizens
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.260

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Water, Doubt
"The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

William Shakespeare
Voice, Bereavement, Littles
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.369

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Doe, Chance
William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Thinking, Errors
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides

This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

William Shakespeare
Book, Magic, Sound
1611 Prospero.The Tempest, act 5, sc.1, l.54-7.

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Sick, Bitter Cold
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 8

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

William Shakespeare
Aids, Form, Vendetta
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.258

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I

William Shakespeare
Song, Sweet, Hands
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 375

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Use, Doers
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Sin, Give Me
William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.46

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Lying, Bed
William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.34, Oldcastle Books

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

William Shakespeare
Wall, Butterfly, Blessing
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

You May Also Like: