SOME SHAKESPEARE’S THOUGHTS
(PART
TWO}
Part
one of this series was posted on March 21. It also carried a brief
introduction. More parts will follow from tomorrow onward.
1.
My
books and instruments shall be my company.---Taming of the Shrew, Act 1.
2.
Me,
poor man, my library/ Was dukedom large enough.---Tempest, Act 1.
3.
Brevity
is the soul of wit,/And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,/I will be
brief. ----Hamlet, Act 2.
4.
I am sure care is an enemy to life.----Twelfth Night, Act 1.
5.
Pitchers
have ears.---Richard 111, Act 2.
6.
Abstinence
engenders maladies.---Love’s Labour Lost,
Act 4.
7.
A
giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. ---Love’s Labour Lost, Act 4.
8.
A
dying coal revives with wind.---From poem Venus
and Adonis, Line 338
9.
It
is a wise father that knows his own child.---Merchant of Venice, Act 2.
10.
Comfort
is in heaven; and we are on the earth,/Where nothing lives but crosses, cares
and grief. ---Richard II, Act 2.
11.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.---Henry V, Act 4.
12.
Our
strong arms be our conscience, swords our law1.----Richard III.
13.
It is virtuous to be constant in any
undertaking. ----Measure for Measure, Act
3.
14.
Men are April when they woo, December when
they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are
wives.---As You Like It, Act 4.
15.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.----Henry IV, 2nd Part, Act 3.
16.
I must be cruel only to be kind.---Hamlet, Act 3.
17.
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.---Julius Caesar, Act 1.
18.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;/ The
valiant never taste of death but once.-----Julius
Caesar, Act 2.
19.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;/They kill us for their sports. ---King Lear, Act 4.
20.
Holy
men at their death have good inspirations.----Merchant of Venice, Act 1.
21.
He that dies pays all debts.---Tempest, Act 3.
********* (To be continued).
G.R.Kanwal
22 March 2026
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