William Shakespeare Quotes about Purpose
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.40, BookCaps Study Guides
The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.130
Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.
"The Oracles of Shakespeare: with a Selection of Aphorisms".
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178
William Shakespeare (1998). “Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.577
But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare (2009). “William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar”, p.132, Infobase Publishing
What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
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
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [184]