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William Shakespeare Quotes about Patience

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O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works: 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. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...”, p.82

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Pericles. Titus Andronicus. Addenda. Indexes”, p.200

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides