Shakespeare quotes on birth

Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller; you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry
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Perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will; but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee, Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together, And in this private plot be we the first That shall salute our rightful sovereign With honour of his birthright to the crown
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

If thou that bid'st me be content wert grim, Ugly, and sland'rous to thy mother's womb, Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains, Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks, I would not care, I then would be content; For then I should not love thee; no, nor thou Become thy great birth, nor deserve a crown
Source: KING JOHN

Their form confounded makes most form in mirth, When great things labouring perish in their birth
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Let us rather Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men Bestride our downfall'n birthdom
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

But not for that dream I on this strange course, But on this travail look for greater birth
Source: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Which to recure, we heartily solicit Your gracious self to take on you

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities; For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

And suddenly; where injury of chance Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows Even in the birth of our own labouring breath
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

He shall conceal it Whiles you are willing it shall come to note, What time we will our celebration keep According to my birth
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

There shall he practise tilts and tournaments, Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen, And be in eye of every exercise Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

My good Camillo, She is as forward of her breeding as She is i' th' rear o' our birth
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

Had our prince, Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd Well with this lord; there was not full a month Between their births
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

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