Poor Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

— William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

— William Shakespeare

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

— William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

— William Shakespeare

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

— William Shakespeare

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

— William Shakespeare

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

— William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

— William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad!

— William Shakespeare

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of…

— William Shakespeare

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

— William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang…

— William Shakespeare

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

— William Shakespeare

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he…

— William Shakespeare

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his…

— William Shakespeare

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;…

— William Shakespeare

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where…

— 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

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that…

— William Shakespeare

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no…

— William Shakespeare

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of…

— William Shakespeare

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments,…

— William Shakespeare

Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I…

— William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her…

— William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make…

— William Shakespeare

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

— William Shakespeare

He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

— William Shakespeare

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a…

— William Shakespeare

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in…

— William Shakespeare

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits…

— William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

— 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

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

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

— William Shakespeare

“Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for…

— William Shakespeare

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

— William Shakespeare

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that…

— William Shakespeare