Shakespeare quotes on moon

21 So is it not with me as with that muse, Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse, Who heaven it self for ornament doth use, And every fair with his fair doth rehearse, Making a couplement of proud compare With sun and moon, with earth and sea's

An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither He sends so poor a pinion of his wing, Which had superfluous kings for messengers Not many moons gone by
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

Let us be Diana's Foresters, Gentlemen of the Shade, Minions of the Moon; and let men say we be men of good government, being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

See how this river comes me cranking in And cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

he bites his lip and starts, Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, Then lays his finger on his temple; straight Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, Strikes his breast hard; and anon he casts His eye against the moon
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

What a brazen-fac'd varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I beat thee and tripp'd up thy heels before the King? [Draws his sword.] Draw, you rogue! for, though it be night, yet the moon shines
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too- Who loses and

Thou art not certain; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Pinch him, fairies, mutually; Pinch him for his villainy; Pinch him and burn him and turn him about, Till candles and star-light and moonshine be out
Source: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

DRAMATIS PERSONAE THESEUS, Duke of Athens EGEUS, father to Hermia LYSANDER, in love with Hermia DEMETRIUS, in love with Hermia PHILOSTRATE, Master of the Revels to Theseus QUINCE, a carpenter SNUG, a joiner BOTTOM, a weaver FLUTE, a bellows-mender SNOUT, a tinker STARVELING, a tailor HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, bethrothed to Theseus HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander HELENA, in love with Demetrius OBERON, King of the Fairies TITANIA, Queen of the Fairies PUCK, or ROBIN GOODFELLOW PEASEBLOSSOM, fairy COBWEB, fairy MOTH, fairy MUSTARDSEED, fairy PROLOGUE, PYRAMUS, THISBY, WALL, MOONSHINE, LION are presented by
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires, Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

But there is two hard things- that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for, you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern, and say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of Moonshine
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes, To have my love to bed and to arise; And pluck the wings from painted butterflies, To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun; But sun it is not, when you say it is not; And the moon changes even as your mind
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm
Source: THE TEMPEST

it is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun borrows of the moon when Diomed keeps his word
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Not for because Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say, Become some women best; so that there be not Too much hair there, but in a semicircle Or a half-moon made with a pen
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

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