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William Shakespeare Quotes about Children

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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Trust, Children

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

William Shakespeare
Love, Children, Love You

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

William Shakespeare
Children, Land, Politics
1592-3 Third Citizen. Richard III, act 2, sc.3, l.11.

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance

William Shakespeare
Children, Love You, Eye
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

William Shakespeare
Children, Hands, Envy
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.84

Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

William Shakespeare
Children, Heart, Fairy
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.51

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

William Shakespeare
Gratitude, Children, Book
William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

William Shakespeare
Kings, Children, Wife
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

...an old man is twice a child.

William Shakespeare
Children, Men, Aging
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.842

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

William Shakespeare
Children, Lying, Grief
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Children, Mind

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

William Shakespeare
Children, Men, Understanding
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

William Shakespeare
Children, Love You, Choices
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

Men from children nothing differ.

William Shakespeare
Children, Sassy, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.236, BookCaps Study Guides

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

William Shakespeare
Children, Father, Comfort
Sonnet 37

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

William Shakespeare
Children, Sleep, Fighting
The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Children, Brain
1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.4, l.96-8.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare
Children, Father, Eye

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Children, Air
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

William Shakespeare
Education, Children, Mean
'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 111

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?

William Shakespeare
Children, Father, Honor
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossary”, p.164

Barnes are blessings.

William Shakespeare
Children, Blessing
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.2303, BookCaps Study Guides

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