Dog Quotes by William Shakespeare

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

— William Shakespeare

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

— William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

— William Shakespeare

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

— William Shakespeare

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

— William Shakespeare

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

— William Shakespeare

He's a very dog to the commonalty

— William Shakespeare

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

— William Shakespeare

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

— William Shakespeare

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

— William Shakespeare

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

— William Shakespeare

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning…

— William Shakespeare

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.

— William Shakespeare

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

— William Shakespeare

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…

— William Shakespeare

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou…

— William Shakespeare

Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So…

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the…

— William Shakespeare

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All…

— William Shakespeare

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and…

— William Shakespeare

Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed…

— William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

— William Shakespeare

The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

— William Shakespeare

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

— William Shakespeare

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

— William Shakespeare

Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

— William Shakespeare

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

— William Shakespeare

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;…

— William Shakespeare

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away…

— William Shakespeare

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,…

— William Shakespeare

Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I…

— William Shakespeare