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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare
Fathers Day, Dad, Son

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

William Shakespeare
Death, Son, Law
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

William Shakespeare
Son, Tempest, Womb

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

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

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

William Shakespeare
Father, Son, Happy Things
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

O war! thou son of Hell!

William Shakespeare
War, Son, Hell
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare
Father, Son, Guests
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons, Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, Or any one of you, chop off your hand And send it to the King: he for the same Will send thee hither both thy sons alive, And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Son, Hands
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.419

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

William Shakespeare
Health, Son, Giving
William Shakespeare (2008). “The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True”, p.154, OUP Oxford

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

William Shakespeare
Hate, Son, Love Is

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare
Country, Son, Patriotism
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Stars, Son
William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Son, Law
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: 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”, p.475

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Son, Swearing
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [108]

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

William Shakespeare
Son, Mad, Noble
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.840

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

William Shakespeare
Son, Grandmother, Thinking
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Son, Men
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

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