War Quotes by William Shakespeare

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

— William Shakespeare

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

— William Shakespeare

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

— William Shakespeare

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

— William Shakespeare

The hideous god of war.

— William Shakespeare

Fight to the last gasp.

— William Shakespeare

O war! thou son of Hell!

— William Shakespeare

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

— William Shakespeare

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

— William Shakespeare

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

— William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

— William Shakespeare

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

— William Shakespeare

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

— William Shakespeare

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

— william shakespeare

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

— William Shakespeare

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride…

— William Shakespeare

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood…

— William Shakespeare

“Who does i'the wars more than his captain can Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of…

— William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

— William Shakespeare

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main…

— William Shakespeare

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:…

— William Shakespeare

Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's…

— William Shakespeare

“O God of battles, steel my soldier's hearts. Possess them not with fear. Take from them now The sense of reckoning ere…

— William Shakespeare

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how…

— William Shakespeare

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never…

— 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

“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

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our…

— William Shakespeare

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n:…

— William Shakespeare

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that…

— William Shakespeare

“And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's…

— 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

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…

— William Shakespeare

“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing…

— 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

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents…

— William Shakespeare

“Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite, That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light. 'Since thou art…

— William Shakespeare

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been…

— William Shakespeare

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost…

— William Shakespeare