QUOTES BY SHAKESPEARE

 

                QUOTES BY SHAKESPEARE   

            Some quotes have already been posted on 20^th and 22^nd March. The one on 20^th March 2026 carried also a brief biography of the poet-dramatist . The following quotes are an addition. More may be posted for some days to come  with today’s heading.  

1.     The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.-- Henry V, Act 4.

2.     Corruption wins not more than honesty. ---Henry VIII, Act 3.

3.     In delay there is no plenty.---Twelfth Night, Act 2.

4.     Let your own discretion be your tutor. ----Hamlet, Act 3.

5.     Dreamers often lie.---Romeo and Juliet, Act 1.

6.     Good wine needs no bush. ---As You Like It, Epilogue Line 4.

7.     Golden lads and girls all must,/As chimney sweepers , come to dust.---Cymbeline, Act 4.

8.     Allow not nature more than nature needs,---King Lear, Act 2.

9.     Be guided by others; experiences.---Cymbeline, Act 1.

10.                        The purest spring is not so free from mud.—Henry VIII, Part 2, Act 3.

11.                         Be just and fear not. ----Henry VIII, Act 1.

12.                         Flowers are like the pleasures of the world.—Cymbeline, Act 4.

13.                         A fool’s bolt is soon shot.---Henry V, Act 3.

14.                         What can be avoided/Whose end is purpose’d by the mighty god? ---Julius Caesar, Act 2.

15.                         Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.---As You Like It, Act 2.

16.                         A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.---Julius Caesar, Act 4.

17.                         Friendship is constant in all other things/Save in the office and affairs of Love----Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2.

18.                        Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.---Hamlet, Act 4.

19.                         We cannot but obey the powers above us.---Pericles, Act 3.

20.                         O Lord! That lends me life. / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.-- ---Henry V1, 2^nd Part,  Act 1.

21.                        Great men should drink with harness on their throats.---Timon of Athens, Act 1.

22.                         I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud, not the soldier’s , which is ambitious; nor the lawyer’s, which is politic; nor the lady’s, which is nice; nor the lover’s, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.----AS You Like It, Act 4.

23.                          Sorrow and grief have vanquish’d all my powers.---Henry Vi, Part 2, Act 4.

24.                          A woeful hostess brooks not merry guests. ----From the poem Rape of Lucrece, Line 1125.            

25.                        Grief makes one hour ten.----Richard II, Act 1.

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G.R.Kanwal

23 March 2026