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William Shakespeare Quotes about Nature

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Life, Nature

'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Waste, Wasting My Time

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Life, Running, Nature

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare

Life, Death, Nature

'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Spring, Garden

Sonnet 98

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

William Shakespeare

Nature, Sleep, Night

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

William Shakespeare

Wise, Nature, Book

1606 Soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.2, l.9-10.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Science, Medicine

William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Sleep, Night

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

And nature must obey necessity.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Science

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 225

Refrain to-night; 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, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Night, Devil

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

William Shakespeare

Nature, Weakness, Sometimes

William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Eruption, Strange

William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Hands, Human Nature

Sonnet 111

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

William Shakespeare

Art, Nature, Kindness

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

William Shakespeare

Nature, Sparks, Hard

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry RANKIN (1841). “The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin”, p.140

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare

Nature, Mirrors

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

William Shakespeare

Art, Nature, Creating

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.350

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