Brain Quotes by William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

— William Shakespeare

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Within the book and volume of thy brain...

— William Shakespeare

Memory, the warder of the brain.

— William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

— William Shakespeare

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

— William Shakespeare

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

— William Shakespeare

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

— William Shakespeare

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

— William Shakespeare

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

— William Shakespeare

“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.”

— William Shakespeare

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

— William Shakespeare

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

— William Shakespeare

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

— William Shakespeare

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

— William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the…

— William Shakespeare

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with…

— William Shakespeare

A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of…

— William Shakespeare

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

— William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

— William Shakespeare

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil…O God, that…

— William Shakespeare

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy…

— William Shakespeare

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as…

— William Shakespeare

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and…

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee…

— William Shakespeare

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,…

— William Shakespeare

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her…

— William Shakespeare

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

— William Shakespeare

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

— William Shakespeare

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare