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William Shakespeare Quotes about Country

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If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

William Shakespeare
Country, Loss, Men
William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Tyrants
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.213, BookCaps Study Guides

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

William Shakespeare
Death, Country, Long Love
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

William Shakespeare
Country, Ends, Fear Not
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

William Shakespeare
Country, Stars, Kings
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

William Shakespeare
Country, Lying, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

William Shakespeare
Country, Kings, Tree
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.87

May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

William Shakespeare
Country, Darkness, Despair
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare
Country, Action, Eleven

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Country
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

William Shakespeare
Country, Pride
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [99]

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

William Shakespeare
Country, Profound, Wife
William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare
Country, Son, Patriotism
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

William Shakespeare
Country, Memorable, Good Man
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

In right and service to their noble country.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Noble
William Shakespeare (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.212

Who is here so vile that will not love his country?

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [31]

I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Favors
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”

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