Wish Quotes by William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

— William Shakespeare

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

— William Shakespeare

Wish chastely, and love dearly.

— William Shakespeare

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

— William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

— William Shakespeare

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

— William Shakespeare

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

— William Shakespeare

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

— William Shakespeare

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

— William Shakespeare

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

— William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

— 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

“What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite…

— William Shakespeare

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all…

— William Shakespeare

God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee…

— William Shakespeare

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the…

— William Shakespeare

Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind,…

— 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

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When…

— William Shakespeare

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a…

— William Shakespeare

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and…

— William Shakespeare

I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are…

— William Shakespeare

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

— William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

— William Shakespeare

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

— William Shakespeare

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

— William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

— William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that…

— William Shakespeare

Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living…

— William Shakespeare

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance,…

— William Shakespeare

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;…

— William Shakespeare