William Shakespeare Giving Quotations

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I can give the loser leave to chide.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

Small to greater matters must give way.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Give me to drink mandragora.

I am not in the giving vein today.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Heaven give you many, many merry days.

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Give me my sin again.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give ...

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

Come give us a taste of your quality.

And in the end... the love you get equals the love you give

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

Words to deeds cold breath gives.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

I am not in the giving vein to-day.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow