Authors:

William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 23

All Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acting Adventure Adversity Affection Show more...
Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Opportunity, New Opportunity
"The Plays of William Shakespeare".

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare
Faith, Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.

William Shakespeare
Winning, Crowns, World
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.138

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Brother, Ocean
William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Drinking, Beer
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

The prize of all too precious you.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Prize
Sonnet 86

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Autumn, March
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 15

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Fall, Thrones
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Macbeth”, p.81, Palgrave Macmillan

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Pride
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.175

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Eye, Men
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Giving, Bacchus
William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

William Shakespeare
Sex, Women, Grief
William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Looks, Poor
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.519

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

William Shakespeare
Goodbye, Farewell, Heart
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

William Shakespeare
Flying, Shadow, Substance
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.71

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.

William Shakespeare
Angel, Air, Heaven
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

William Shakespeare
Conceited, Substance, Matter
"Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

You are strangely troublesome.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Troublesome
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3260, Oxford University Press

These violent delights have violent ends.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight
1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare
Love, Young, Knows
William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

William Shakespeare
Justice, Causes, Beam
William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann (1791). “The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes”, p.256

A young man married is a man that's marred.

William Shakespeare
Love, Marriage, Men
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare
Wave, Ends, Minutes
Sonnet 60

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Moving, Angel
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

You May Also Like: