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William Shakespeare Quotes about War

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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

William Shakespeare
War, Patriotic, Order

Fight to the last gasp.

William Shakespeare
War, Fighting, Lasts

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

William Shakespeare
Smile, War, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 105

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

William Shakespeare
Love, Fashion, War
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

William Shakespeare
War, Kissing, Tyrants
1607 Pericles. Pericles, sc.2, l.84.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

William Shakespeare
War, Men, Trying

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare
Memorial Day, Peace, War
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

William Shakespeare
Memorial Day, War, Adversity
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

William Shakespeare
Dog, Military, War
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

William Shakespeare
War, Deeds, Anarchy
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.597, Wordsworth Editions

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

William Shakespeare
War, Support, Suffering
William Shakespeare (2012). “Coriolanus”, p.3, Courier Corporation

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Wall, War
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare
Peace, War, Memorable
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.347

Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

William Shakespeare
War, Book, Hands
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

William Shakespeare
War, Tyrants, Bed
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [230]

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

William Shakespeare
War, Self, Self Love
William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.41, Cengage Learning EMEA

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

William Shakespeare
Dream, War, Night
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Greatness
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

William Shakespeare
War, Fighting, Flesh
William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

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

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

William Shakespeare
Girl, War, Fall
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 13, l. 60

I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

William Shakespeare
Peace, War, Simple
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 162

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

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

William Shakespeare
War, Honor, Companionship
William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

William Shakespeare
War, Home, Numbers
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

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