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William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 79

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So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare
Love, Eye, Men
Sonnet 18

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare
Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Business, Military
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

Pardon's the word to all.

William Shakespeare
Pardon
William Shakespeare, Ambrose Eccles (1801). “The much admired glee of Hark the lark, as introduced in the 2d act [of Cymbeline]”, p.332

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Art, Spring
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Men, Ambitious
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]

There is flattery in friendship.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Real, Real Friends
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

William Shakespeare
Kings, Men, Sin
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Memorable, Be Kind
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178

Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other

William Shakespeare
Knows

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

William Shakespeare
Halloween, School, Littles
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Fate, Land
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Vapor, Adultery
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Clothes, Justice
William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.795, Wordsworth Editions

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

William Shakespeare
Simple, Errors, Law
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Eye, Race
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Treasury, Everlasting

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Fairness, Good Dog
William Shakespeare, Henry NEELE (1824). “Shakespeare's Plays, with notes by H. Neele. With engraved plates”

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare
Life, Dream, Sleep
'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

William Shakespeare
Love, Fire, Spirit
'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

William Shakespeare
Venice, Shylock, Instruction
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

William Shakespeare
Looks, Politics, Politician
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1806). “King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II”, p.189

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

William Shakespeare
Long, Design, Politics
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare
Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

William Shakespeare
Home, Cutting, Night
William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

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