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William Shakespeare Quotes about Life - Page 4

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Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

William Shakespeare

Life, Care, Cures

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.19

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

William Shakespeare

Life, Ambition, Mean

William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.131, Classic Books Company

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Life, Prison

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.591

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

William Shakespeare

Life, Heaven, Comfort

'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. [192]

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Life Is

William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.323

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

William Shakespeare

Life, Book, Fate

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 54

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

William Shakespeare

Life, Eye, Spy

William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.375

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

William Shakespeare

Life, Mean, Punishment

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

William Shakespeare

Life, Firsts, Worst

William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

William Shakespeare

Life, Sailor, Bowels

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.854, BookCaps Study Guides

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

William Shakespeare

Life, Yarn, Despair

'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

William Shakespeare

Life, Change, Moon

William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

William Shakespeare

Life, Sympathy, Leaving

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare

Life, Blessed, Wine

'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

William Shakespeare

Life, Chance, Disaster

William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.130

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

William Shakespeare

Life, Father, Years

William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

William Shakespeare

Life, Air, May

William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.335

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Errors

Sonnet 116

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