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William Shakespeare Quotes about Fear

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Success, Fear

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

William Shakespeare

Life, Fear, Passion

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Worry, Lady Macbeth

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Time, Fear, Hate

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 12

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Fighting, Extremes

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1209, Barnes & Noble Publishing

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Furious

William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1839). “The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.”, p.194

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

William Shakespeare

Crush, Fear, Giving

The fear's as bad as falling.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Fall

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.716

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

William Shakespeare

Stars, Fear, Eye

'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 13

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Sleep

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare”, p.133

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Villainy

William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.108

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Giving, Weakness

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.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Night, Hair

'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 9

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Eye, Looks

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Men, Soul

William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.533

Hang those that talk of fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear

William Shakespeare (1806). “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.222

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

William Shakespeare

Dream, Fear, Sleep

'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Fighting, Giving

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.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

Be just, and fear not.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Justice, Anxiety

'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Men, Blue

'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Our Actions, Madness

'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

William Shakespeare

Couple, Fear, Heaven

1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.92-7.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare

Fear, Men, Thinking

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

William Shakespeare

Kings, Fear, Silly

'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 42

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Halloween, Lying

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.50

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