Temperance Quotes by William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

— William Shakespeare

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

— William Shakespeare

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

— William Shakespeare

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

— William Shakespeare

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

— William Shakespeare

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

— William Shakespeare

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

— William Shakespeare

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

— William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

— William Shakespeare

“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)”

— William Shakespeare

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

— William Shakespeare

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

— William Shakespeare

Omittance is no quittance.

— William Shakespeare

“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon…

— William Shakespeare

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

— William Shakespeare