William Shakespeare Quotes about Sports
1594-5 Princess. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.152.
William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36
William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 206
For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.39, BookCaps Study Guides
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.870, Oxford University Press
