Fish Quotes by William Shakespeare

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

— William Shakespeare

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

— William Shakespeare

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

— William Shakespeare

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

— William Shakespeare

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— William Shakespeare

Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes…

— William Shakespeare

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

— William Shakespeare

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

— William Shakespeare

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

— William Shakespeare

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With…

— William Shakespeare

“I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.”

— William Shakespeare

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of…

— William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient…

— William Shakespeare