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Reason Quotes - Page 95

Love`s reason`s without reason

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Cymbeline. Othello”, p.116

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

William Shakespeare (1869). “Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy”, p.101

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.124

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

William Shakespeare (2004). “Twelfth Night (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

O, reason not the need!

William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.132

Love reasons without reason.

William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope (1747). “The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes”, p.309

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.419

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 202

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.156

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

"Shakespeare Jest Books, Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies", No. 86, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”