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William Shakespeare Quotes about Running

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Death, Running
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare
Running, Water, Deception
The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

William Shakespeare
Running, Necks, Running Away

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare
Love, Wise, Running
1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Strange
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [53]

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

William Shakespeare
Running, Impossible, Strive
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Heart
1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.4, l.101-2.

We see which way the stream of time doth run.

William Shakespeare
Running, Time, Way
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.436

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

William Shakespeare
Running, Fate, Contrary
1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

William Shakespeare
Running, Heart, Apollo
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

William Shakespeare
Running, Art, Moving

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

William Shakespeare
Running, Horse, Adages

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

William Shakespeare
Running, War, Blood
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

William Shakespeare
Running, Time, Men
'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 1, sc. 5, l. 21

But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.

William Shakespeare
Death, Running, Bed
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 99

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

William Shakespeare
Running, Love You, You Like It
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [34]

Lovers ever run before the clock

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Clock
William Shakespeare (1868). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...”, p.173

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

William Shakespeare
Running, Stupidity, Strange
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Angel

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

William Shakespeare
Running, Balance, Swiftness

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

William Shakespeare
Running, Fate, Destiny
1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

William Shakespeare
Running, Anger, Fire
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

William Shakespeare
Running, Dog, Coward
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.150, Oxford University Press, USA

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

William Shakespeare
Running, Dog, Office
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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