Children Quotes by William Shakespeare

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

— William Shakespeare

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

— William Shakespeare

“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”

— William Shakespeare

As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like…

— William Shakespeare

“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms…

— William Shakespeare

“They say an old man is twice a child”

— William Shakespeare

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

— William Shakespeare

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?

— William Shakespeare

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

— William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— William Shakespeare

You are a thousand times a properer man Than she a woman. 'Tis such fools as you That makes the world full…

— William Shakespeare

...an old man is twice a child.

— William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing…

— William Shakespeare

“Thou talk'st of nothing." "True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain…

— William Shakespeare

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living,…

— William Shakespeare

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

— William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

— William Shakespeare

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

— William Shakespeare

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers…

— William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his…

— William Shakespeare

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

— William Shakespeare

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

— William Shakespeare

Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

— William Shakespeare

“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with…

— William Shakespeare

“I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable, As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:…

— William Shakespeare

Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad…

— William Shakespeare

“And in thy best consideration check This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,…

— William Shakespeare

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

— William Shakespeare

Barnes are blessings.

— William Shakespeare

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

— William Shakespeare

“If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake; And never dare misfortune cross…

— William Shakespeare

Men from children nothing differ.

— William Shakespeare

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that…

— William Shakespeare

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest…

— William Shakespeare

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like…

— William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

— William Shakespeare

“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

— William Shakespeare