Fire Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

“Where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

— 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

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging…

— William Shakespeare

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

— William Shakespeare

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

— William Shakespeare

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

— William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

— William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame…

— William Shakespeare

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

— William Shakespeare

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without…

— William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

— William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

— William Shakespeare

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

— William Shakespeare

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in…

— William Shakespeare

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness,…

— William Shakespeare

“But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.”

— William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

— William Shakespeare

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward…

— William Shakespeare

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

— William Shakespeare

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And…

— William Shakespeare

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company…

— William Shakespeare

“The fire of love always burns itself out, and nothing stays the way it began. Even a good thing can grow too…

— William Shakespeare

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

— William Shakespeare

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

— William Shakespeare

I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely…

— William Shakespeare