William Shakespeare Quotes about Giving - Page 3

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Success, Giving, Mood

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [271]

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

William Shakespeare

Gay, Jewels, Giving

'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.

William Shakespeare

Love You, Eye, Giving

'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Thinking, Giving

William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.292

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

William Shakespeare

Art, Long, Giving

William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

William Shakespeare

Clouds, Giving, House

William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

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

I can give the loser leave to chide.

William Shakespeare

Loss, Giving, Speech

William Shakespeare (2003). “Henry VI, Part Two”, p.188, Oxford University Press, USA

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

William Shakespeare

Moving, Eye, Giving

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.43

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

William Shakespeare

Angel, Giving, Devil

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

William Shakespeare

Hurt, Giving, Tongue

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips

William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Imagination, Ambitious

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

William Shakespeare

Good Luck, Giving, Wife

William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

William Shakespeare

Military, Giving, Obedience

William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.7392, BookCaps Study Guides

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Sea, Giving

'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

Words to deeds cold breath gives.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Deeds, Cold

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Heaven, Way

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.316

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

William Shakespeare

Fire, Blood, Giving

William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

William Shakespeare

Twilight, Giving, Car

William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Sin, Give Me

William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.46

Small to greater matters must give way.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Giving, Matter

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.680

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

William Shakespeare

Men, Giving, Soul

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.468, Barnes & Noble Publishing

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

William Shakespeare

Funny, Humorous, Giving

1601 SirToby to SirAndrew.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.4, l.176-8.

William Shakespeare Quotes about Giving - Page 3

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