“What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.”
“And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems
“I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.”
“Can I go forward when my heart is here?”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.”
“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”
Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
“Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.”
“My heart is ever at your service.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say”
Source: The Life and Death of King Richard II
“By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes
“To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth”
Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere
“Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)
“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
Source: The complete works of William Shakespeare: The text regulated by the old copies and by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript emendations. With notes, selected and original, a copious and almost new glossary, the poet's life and portrait
“Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.”
Source: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ
“My crown is in my heart, not on my head.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.”
“Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers
“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“For by his face straight shall you know his heart.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”
“Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.”
“A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.”
“For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.”
“Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”
“It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone
“You are my true and honourable wife;
As dear to me as the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.”
“Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.”
“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”
“To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.”
Source: The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].
“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
Subjected tribute to commanding love,
Against whose fury and unmatched force
The aweless lion could not wage the fight
Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“. . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done.”
Source: Macbeth
“I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)
“O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!”
“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.”
“Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.”
