William Shakespeare Ears Quotations

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.