“Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth”
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!”
“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”
“If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.”
“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes”
“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”
“By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.”
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Heaven give you many, many merry days.”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
Do summon us to part, and bid good night.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”
Source: Double Falsehood: Third Series
“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...
“Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.”
“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
“By Heaven, I love thee better than myself”
Source: The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”
“So loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,
Visit her face' too roughly.”
“Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.”
“I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,
That I will speak to thee.”
“But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.”
Source: The Tempest
“Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“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)
“The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“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
“There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”
Source: Othello, the Moor of Venice, tragedy ... Marked with the variations in the Manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane
“In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.”
“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
“The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.”
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
“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.”
“Can we outrun the heavens?”
Source: King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III
“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
“Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!”
“Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence,
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor -
Both thanks and use.”
Source: The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure
“My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.”
Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare
“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so
To punish me with this, and this with me,
That I must be their scourge and minister.
I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So again good night.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators
“O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
Hath virgined it e'er since.”
“CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.”
