William Shakespeare Quotes about Home

When I was at home I was in a better place

When I was at home I was in a better place

Home, Touchstones, Better Place

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [16]

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

Home, Tyrants, Alliances

William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.263

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare

Marriage, Husband, Home

'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

William Shakespeare

Home, Sloth, World

William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.3

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare

Home, Memorable, Youth

'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

What's more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exiled friends abroad That fled the snares of watchful tyranny, Producing forth the cruel ministers Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands Took off her life; this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace We will perform in measure, time, and place.

William Shakespeare

Queens, Home, Self

William Shakespeare (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.281

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Home, Feet

'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.

William Shakespeare

Home, Return, Ifs

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2863, Oxford University Press

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

William Shakespeare

Faith, Home, Eye

William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

William Shakespeare

Home, Cutting, Night

William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

William Shakespeare

War, Home, Numbers

'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

William Shakespeare

Travel, Lying, Home

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

William Shakespeare

Love, Eye, Home

William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare

Home, Memorable, House

1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

William Shakespeare

Home, Sleep, Night

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184