William Shakespeare Quotes about Patience
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [37]
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
William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343
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
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
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin
'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