--- title: "8 Brooks Quotes By William Shakespeare" description: "8 Brooks quotes by William Shakespeare. Plus more from William Shakespeare and more Brooks sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/william-shakespeare-4_books_and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-hau_71379.jpg" --- > [And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-haunt-finds-tongues-in-trees/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/william-shakespeare-4_books_and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-hau_71379.jpg) > [Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not-the-wind/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/william-shakespeare-4_brook_many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not_147147.jpg) > [These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/these-are-the-forgeries-of-jealousy-and-never-since-the-middle-summer/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/william-shakespeare-4_beach_these-are-the-forgeries-of-jealousy-and_878172.jpg) > [There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/there-is-a-willow-grows-aslant-a-brook-that-shows-his-hoar-leaves-in/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/william-shakespeare-4_broke_there-is-a-willow-grows-aslant-a-brook-t_977866.jpg) > [A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/a-substitute-shines-brightly-as-a-king-until-a-king-be-by-and-then/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_a-substitute-shines-brightly-as-a-king-u_1046256.jpg) > [Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/smooth-runs-the-water-where-the-brook-is-deep/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5e/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_smooth-runs-the-water-where-the-brook-is_2222885.jpg) > [“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes-and-groves-and-ye-that-on-the/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes_2327451.jpg) > [GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/gloucester-yet-so-much-is-my-poverty-of-spirit-so-mighty-and-so-many/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f8/william-shakespeare-4_bark_gloucester-yet-so-much-is-my-poverty-of_2478644.jpg) ## Other authors on Brooks ## More by William Shakespeare > [Let us kill all lawyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/let-us-kill-all-lawyers/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/a-horse-a-horse-my-kingdom-for-a-horse/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/o-tiger-s-heart-wrapped-in-a-woman-s-hide/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/time-hath-not-yet-so-dried-this-blood-of-mine-nor-age-so-eat-up-my/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/divers-philosophers-hold-that-the-lips-is-parcel-of-the-mouth/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/short-time-seems-long-in-sorrow-s-sharp-sustaining/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/love-is-a-smoke-made-with-the-fume-of-sighs-being-purg-d-a-fire/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/i-measuring-his-affections-by-my-own-which-then-most-sought-where/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/ask-god-for-temp-rance-that-s-th-appliance-only-which-your-disease/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/thou-hast-no-figures-nor-no-fantasies-which-busy-care-draws-in-the/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/truth-needs-no-color-beauty-no-pencil/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/have-you-not-heard-it-said-full-oft-a-woman-s-nay-doth-stand-for/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [Omittance is no quittance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/omittance-is-no-quittance/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/yes-madam-yet-i-cannot-choose-but-laugh-to-think-it-should-leave/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) > [I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/i-take-thee-at-thy-word-call-me-but-love-and-i-ll-be-new-baptized/) [William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brooks/william-shakespeare/#itemlist", "name": "8 Brooks Quotes By William Shakespeare", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Shakespeare" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-haunt-finds-tongues-in-trees/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/william-shakespeare-4_books_and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-hau_71379.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/william-shakespeare-4_books_and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-hau_71379.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/william-shakespeare-4_books_and-this-our-life-exempt-from-public-hau_71379.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons…” — William Shakespeare", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Shakespeare" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not-the-wind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/william-shakespeare-4_brook_many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not_147147.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/william-shakespeare-4_brook_many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not_147147.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/453/william-shakespeare-4_brook_many-can-brook-the-weather-that-love-not_147147.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.” — William Shakespeare", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "These are the forgeries of jealousy; 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you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds, And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove’s stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck’d up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ‘em forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Shakespeare" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes-and-groves-and-ye-that-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes_2327451.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes_2327451.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/william-shakespeare-4_brooks_ye-elves-of-hills-brooks-standing-lakes_2327451.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase…” — William Shakespeare", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. 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