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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 148

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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

William Shakespeare
Book, Reading, Tenors
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Turtles, Twenties
William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

William Shakespeare
Art, Men, Temptation
William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.260

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Beard, You Like It
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.209

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Deceit, Fortune
William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.50

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

William Shakespeare
Mother, Father, Lying
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2601, BookCaps Study Guides

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare
Lost Friendship, Loving Friends, Lost Friend
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1176, Modern Library

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

William Shakespeare
Scarves, Kinky, Proud
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.224

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare
Christian, Believe, Men
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

William Shakespeare
Believe, Belief, Secrecy
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [113]

Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

William Shakespeare
Dark, House, Devil
William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

William Shakespeare
Peace, War, Humility
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

William Shakespeare
Life, Sailor, Bowels
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.854, BookCaps Study Guides

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

William Shakespeare
Life, Yarn, Despair
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

William Shakespeare
Life, Change, Moon
William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

William Shakespeare
Life, Sympathy, Leaving
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.

William Shakespeare
Pay, Suits, Strife
William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed”, p.61

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare
Men, Two, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 114

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

William Shakespeare
Business, Men, Might
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 123

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Haste, Glory
1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

William Shakespeare
Blessing, Charity, Curse
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

William Shakespeare
Dance, Scotch, Dancing
William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

William Shakespeare
Time, Jealous, Sea
William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

William Shakespeare
Time, Faces, Shoulders
1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.91-3.

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