Top 25 Quotes by William Shakespeare of 4028 - Page 91

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

Kings, Lying, Needs

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.50

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

William Shakespeare

Men, Law, Helping

William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.234, Cengage Learning EMEA

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

William Shakespeare

Smell, Giving, Rose

'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

William Shakespeare

Spirit, Wander, Wit

'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [60]

And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

Poverty, Poor

'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare

Poverty, Thanks, Poor

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.259

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare

Advice, Silence, Speech

1604-5 Countess to Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.64-5.

Sin will pluck on sin.

William Shakespeare

Sin, Pluck

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

William Shakespeare

Uplifting, Views, Hammers

William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

William Shakespeare

Dog, Art, Slavery

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

William Shakespeare

World, Levels, Blank

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

William Shakespeare

Sleep, Night, Toil

William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

William Shakespeare

Sorrow, Comfort

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3867, BookCaps Study Guides

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

William Shakespeare

Imagination, Honor, Toil

William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

Environmental, Doe, Stewardship

1613 Wolsey to Henry. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.147-8.

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

William Shakespeare

Kings, Mean, Sleep

1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

On your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

William Shakespeare

Team, Sleep, Night

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

William Shakespeare

Sweet, Sleep, Eye

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.

William Shakespeare

Sleep, Eye, Attachment

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

William Shakespeare

Team, Twilight, Sunrise

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.318

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

William Shakespeare

Eye, World, Sun

William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA

Travelers must be content.

William Shakespeare

Travel, Traveler

William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

William Shakespeare

Travel, Lying, Home

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

William Shakespeare

Sweet, Brother, Woods

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2