Shakespeare quotes on children

9 Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife, The world will be thy widow and still weep, That thou no form of thee hast left

So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does the danger is in standing to 't; that's the loss of men, though it be the getting of children
Source: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Caesar through Syria Intends his journey, and within three days You with your children will he send before
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum; See him pluck Aufidius down by th' hair; As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

We must find An evident calamity, though we had Our wish, which side should win; for either thou Must as a foreign recreant be led With manacles through our streets, or else Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin, And bear the palm for having bravely shed Thy wife and children's blood
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place'- some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left
Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts, In open market-place produc'd they me To be a public spectacle to all; Here, said they, is the terror of the French, The scarecrow that affrights our children so
Source: THE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH

When was the hour I ever contradicted

Be pleased then To pay that duty which you truly owe To him that owes it, namely, this young prince; And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear, Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up; Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent Against th' invulnerable clouds of heaven; And with a blessed and unvex'd retire, With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruis'd, We will bear home that lusty blood again Which here we came to spout against your town, And leave your children, wives, and you, in peace
Source: KING JOHN

These couchings and these lowly courtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men And turn preordinance and first decree Into the law of children
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind; But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR

Tyrant, show thy face! If thou best slain and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children; therefore, I promise you, I fear you
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Nay, but do so then; and, look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand any thing; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness
Source: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

So shall all the couples three Ever true in loving be; And the blots of Nature's hand Shall not in their issue stand; Never mole, hare-lip, nor scar, Nor mark prodigious, such as are Despised in nativity, Shall upon their children be
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

The King is not himself, but basely led By flatterers; and what they will inform, Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us an, That will the King severely prosecute 'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes That I, being govern'd by the watery moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world! Ah for my husband, for my dear Lord Edward! CHILDREN
Source: KING RICHARD III

O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee gone! Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heels; Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Source: KING RICHARD III

Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery, Albeit they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs, Melted with tenderness and mild compassion, Wept like two children in their deaths' sad story
Source: KING RICHARD III

Then if you fight against God's enemy, God will in justice ward you as his soldiers; If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain; If you do fight against your country's foes, Your country's foes shall pay your pains the hire; If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors; If you do free your children from the sword, Your children's children quits it in your age
Source: KING RICHARD III

Revenge it, as you love your mother's life, Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

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