Nature Quotes by William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

— William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

— William Shakespeare

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

— William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

— William Shakespeare

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

— William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

— William Shakespeare

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

— William Shakespeare

“I am even The natural fool of fortune.”

— William Shakespeare

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

— William Shakespeare

“I talk of you: Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play…

— William Shakespeare

“yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way:”

— William Shakespeare

“And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.”

— William Shakespeare

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

— William Shakespeare

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant,…

— William Shakespeare

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

— William Shakespeare

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

— William Shakespeare

Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with…

— William Shakespeare

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself…

— William Shakespeare

“I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall—I will do such things— What they are, yet I…

— William Shakespeare

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th'…

— William Shakespeare

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the…

— William Shakespeare

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

— William Shakespeare

“Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's…

— William Shakespeare

Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the…

— William Shakespeare

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only,…

— William Shakespeare

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use…

— William Shakespeare

He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger… he is pure air and fire; and the…

— William Shakespeare

“Is it but this,—a tardiness in nature Which often leaves the history unspoke That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,…

— William Shakespeare

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,…

— William Shakespeare

This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his…

— William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,…

— William Shakespeare

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— William Shakespeare

“Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey…

— William Shakespeare

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would…

— William Shakespeare

“Virginity being blown down man will quicklier be blown up; marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made you…

— William Shakespeare

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as…

— William Shakespeare

“Commend me to them, And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,…

— William Shakespeare

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing…

— William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging…

— William Shakespeare