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William Shakespeare Quotes about Passion

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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Fire, Sap

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.25

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

William Shakespeare

Life, Fear, Passion

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

William Shakespeare

Love You, Passion, Finest

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.643

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Player, Air

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

William Shakespeare

Passion, Mirth, Gross

William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1857). “Werke: Histories: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV. Part 1. King Henry IV. Part 2. King Henry V.”

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

William Shakespeare

Kings, Passion, Color

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “Macbeth. King John”, p.380

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Heart, Men

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [76]

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

William Shakespeare

Love You, Passion, Pride

1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Listening, Unjust

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

William Shakespeare

Grief, Passion, Gallantry

Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love, Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Heart, Sleep

William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Waiting, Advice

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

William Shakespeare

Passion, World, Mouths

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Eye, Blood

William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.431

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Sleep, Voice

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

William Shakespeare

Passion, Wish, Trials

'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Men, Death Of A Friend

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.184

This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

William Shakespeare

Sweet, Passion, Air

'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 389

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Soul, Tears

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Reason, Lord

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.124

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Heart, Suffering

William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Purpose, Propose

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.192

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Venice, Mistress

William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

William Shakespeare

Anger, Passion, Exercise

William Shakespeare (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard”

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

William Shakespeare

Sweet, Passion, Mean

William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.58, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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