SHAKESPEARE QUOTATIONS 1

I shall be loved whem I am lacked.
Coriolanus

Action is eloquence.
Coriolanus

-Good sentences, and well pronounced.
-They would be better if well followed.
-If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do,
chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.
Portia and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice

O, what men dare do!
What men may do!
What men daily do, not knowing what they do!
Much Ado About Nothing

Talkers are no good doers.
Richard III

O how full of briars is this working-day world!
As You Like it

Be something scanter of your maiden presence.
Hamlet

Good counsellors lack no clients.
Measure for Measure

Arm thy heart and fit thy thoughts to mount aloft.
Titus Andronicus

Time goes on crutches till love hath all his rites.
Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio to Don Pedro, saying he plans to marry Hero on the following day

I am giddy: expectation whirls me round.
Troilus and Cressida, Troilus, about to be brought to Cressida

A troubled mind drove me to walk abroad.
Romeo and Juliet

Mislike me not for my complexion.
Merchant of Venice, Prince of Morocco to Portia

Why, what’s the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness?
Much Ado About Nothing

Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon to Cardinal Wolsey

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
Othello

What fine chisel could ever cut breath?
Winter’s Tale

This is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.
Winter’s Tale

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
Lucrece

O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God.
Richard III

The private wound is deepest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona

Night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
Richard II

The pleasing punishment that women bear.
Comedy of Errors

When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
King Lear

Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia
Will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth

Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
Othello

Boldness be my friend!
Cymbeline

For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?
Love’s Labour’s Lost

Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.
Romeo and Juliet

SENTENCES FOR REFLECTION


Every day can be glorious.

Never act a part, be real.

Laugh at the impossible.

Dig deep and mine the greatest in men.

Steer a straight course, unruffled, serene and sure.

To be honest is our only hope.

We cannot help how clever we are, we can how wise.

Always keep a grateful heart.

Let God sweep in all the corners.

Never let others feel the cost of our moods.

Not what we think, but what needs to be done.

Character doesn’t just happen – it is moulded.

We make ourselves so small.

Live each day as if your last.

Go where the stones are rough.

Obstacles are for climbing over.

Decisions are the bricks to build character.

Do you drift on the tide, or turn it?

The only way to blot out the past is to build for the future.

Let the whole world walk into your heart.

In the quietness of the early morning we can get

God’s directions for the whole day.