Sea Quotes by William Shakespeare

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

— William Shakespeare

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

— William Shakespeare

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

— William Shakespeare

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

— William Shakespeare

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

— William Shakespeare

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

— William Shakespeare

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

— William Shakespeare

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

— William Shakespeare

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

— William Shakespeare

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

— William Shakespeare

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea…

— William Shakespeare

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,…

— William Shakespeare

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

— William Shakespeare

If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the…

— William Shakespeare

My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in…

— William Shakespeare

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…

— William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage…

— William Shakespeare

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the…

— William Shakespeare

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine,…

— William Shakespeare

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave…

— William Shakespeare

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great…

— William Shakespeare

Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the…

— William Shakespeare

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance…

— William Shakespeare

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?…

— William Shakespeare

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave…

— William Shakespeare

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the…

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea…

— William Shakespeare

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in…

— 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

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing…

— William Shakespeare

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty…

— William Shakespeare

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea…

— William Shakespeare

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the…

— William Shakespeare