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William Shakespeare Quotes about Desire

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I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

William Shakespeare
Men, Desire, Spirit
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

I do desire we may be better strangers.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Desire, May
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [276]

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

William Shakespeare
Love, Heart, Desire
Sonnet 57

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

William Shakespeare
Love, Desire, Too Much
William Shakespeare (1860). “As You Like it”, p.79

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Alcohol, Desire
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Desire, Heirs
William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.258

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare
Desire, Sin, Covetousness
William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

William Shakespeare
Gold, Desire, Pounds
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2321, BookCaps Study Guides

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

William Shakespeare
Alcohol, Desire, Mars
Macbeth II. 3

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

William Shakespeare
Lust, Desire, Limits
William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.133, BookCaps Study Guides

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Desire, Her Beauty
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

William Shakespeare
Real, Desire, Way
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.19

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

William Shakespeare
Evil, Desire, Sanctuary
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes

William Shakespeare
Love You, Eye, Desire
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.113, BookCaps Study Guides

The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Giving, Desire
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Complete dramatic works and miscellaneous poems”, p.9

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

William Shakespeare
Famous Love, Love Is, Desire
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

William Shakespeare
Desire, Politics, Too Short
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations”, p.252

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

William Shakespeare
Christmas, Rose, Desire
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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