Peace Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant (Isabella)

— William Shakespeare

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

— William Shakespeare

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

— William Shakespeare

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

— William Shakespeare

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of…

— William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

— William Shakespeare

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

— William Shakespeare

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

— William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents…

— William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears;…

— William Shakespeare

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let…

— William Shakespeare

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on…

— William Shakespeare

“Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you: all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made…

— William Shakespeare

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…

— William Shakespeare

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For…

— William Shakespeare

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for…

— William Shakespeare

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to…

— William Shakespeare

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;…

— William Shakespeare

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

— William Shakespeare

“Caesar. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night.      Thrice”

— William Shakespeare

I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

— William Shakespeare

“Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.”

— William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

— William Shakespeare

“But Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as…

— William Shakespeare

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

— William Shakespeare

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

— William Shakespeare