Shakespeare quotes on sad

This told, I joy, but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad
Source: THE SONNETS

But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired, The boy for trial needs would touch my breast, I sick withal the help of

Like to the time o' th' year between the extremes Of hot and cold; he was nor sad nor merry
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there begins my sadness
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

Nature presently distill'd Helen's cheek, but not her heart, Cleopatra's majesty, Atalanta's better part, Sad Lucretia's modesty
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss, That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd, To tell sad stories of my own mishaps
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

O-Sixpence that I had a Wednesday last To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper? The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entomb'd in an ass's pack-saddle
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave
Source: CYMBELINE

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Marry, I tell thee it is not meet that I should be sad, now my father is sick; albeit I could tell to thee- as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend- I could be sad and sad indeed too
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord, Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts! And may that thought, when I imagine ill Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry, Be my last breathing in this mortal world! My troublous dreams this night doth make me sad
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

By many hands your father was subdu'd; But only slaught'red by the ireful arm Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen, Who crown'd the gracious Duke in high despite, Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept, The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks A napkin steeped in the harmless blood Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain; And after many scorns, many foul taunts, They took his head, and on the gates of York They set the same; and there it doth remain, The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd
Source: THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

Therefore, for goodness sake, and as you are known The first and happiest hearers of the town, Be sad, as we would make ye
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

Sit by us; you shall hear- This was his gentleman in trust-of him Things to strike honour sad
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

Let's in; And with some other business put the King From these sad thoughts that work too much upon him
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

And, by my faith, this league that we have made Will give her sadness very little cure
Source: KING JOHN

You are my true and honorable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR

I should be still Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind, Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads; And every object that might make me fear Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt, Would make me sad
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought To think on this, and shall I lack the thought That such a thing bechanc'd would make me sad? But tell not me; I know Antonio Is sad to think upon his merchandise
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Believe me, no; I thank my fortune for it, My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year; Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano- A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit
Source: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear, My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

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

Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me More than to Richmond? For the selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him
Source: KING RICHARD III

First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

The King's son have I landed by himself, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot
Source: THE TEMPEST

When men come to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly and go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house merrily and go away sadly
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

[ANDRONICUS lieth down, and the judges pass by him with the prisoners, and exeunt] For these, Tribunes, in the dust I write My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

Lavinia, go with me; I'll to thy closet, and go read with thee Sad stories chanced in the times of old
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

The element itself, till seven years' heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view; But like a cloistress she will veiled walk, And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine; all this to season A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her sad remembrance
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walk'd, to walk like one of the lions; when you fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you look'd sadly, it was for want of money
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

Your message done, hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

If I make not this cheat bring out another, and the shearers prove sheep, let me be unroll'd, and my name put in the book of virtue! [Sings] Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

We'll have this song out anon by ourselves; my father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll not trouble them
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

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