Patience Quotes by William Shakespeare

“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:”

— William Shakespeare

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

— William Shakespeare

Have patience, and endure

— William Shakespeare

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

— William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes?

— William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

— William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

— William Shakespeare

“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes.”

— William Shakespeare

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

— William Shakespeare

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

— William Shakespeare

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears…

— William Shakespeare

“Patience perforce with willful choler meeting/Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting./I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert…

— William Shakespeare

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul…

— William Shakespeare

“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes Patience her injury a mock'ry makes. The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.…

— William Shakespeare

What you have said I will consider; what you haveto say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet…

— William Shakespeare

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and…

— William Shakespeare

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them,…

— William Shakespeare

“For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of…

— William Shakespeare

“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's…

— William Shakespeare

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars…

— William Shakespeare

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue…

— William Shakespeare

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her…

— William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

— William Shakespeare

The patient must minister to himself

— William Shakespeare

God grant us patience!

— William Shakespeare

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

— William Shakespeare

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

— William Shakespeare

a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

— William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have have not patients.

— William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

— William Shakespeare

O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

— William Shakespeare

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

— William Shakespeare

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

— William Shakespeare

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and…

— William Shakespeare

'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency…

— William Shakespeare