Shakespeare quotes on patience

140 Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain
Source: THE SONNETS

His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his face; if your lordship be in't, as I believe you are, you must have

Know, then, I came before you here a man prepar'd To take this offer; but Mark Antony Put me to some impatience
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

[To DUKE] You to your former honour I bequeath; Your patience and your virtue well deserves it
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience would relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

I will tell you; If you'll bestow a small- of what you have little- Patience awhile, you'st hear the belly's answer
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

Why, 'tis no great matter; for a very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS

This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine; And so, away; no farther with your din Express impatience, lest you stir up mine
Source: CYMBELINE

In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame, And since your coming hither have done enough To put him quite besides his patience
Source: THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

When he was brought again to th' bar to hear His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd With such an agony he sweat extremely, And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty; But he fell to himself again, and sweetly In all the rest show'd a most noble patience
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience
Source: KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

So may he ever do! and ever flourish

You look pale and gaze And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder To see the strange impatience of the heavens
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike having received wrong by some person, is at most odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you saw
Source: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes With your derision! None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin, and extort A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Bring me a father that so lov'd his child, Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine, And bid him speak to me of patience
Source: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem' when he should groan, Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk With candle-wasters--bring him yet to me, And I of him will gather patience
Source: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears But the free comfort which from thence he hears; But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE

Though Cassio did some little wrong to him, As men in rage strike those that wish them best, Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received From him that fled some strange indignity, Which patience could not pass
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE

[Aside] How like a dream is this I see and hear! Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile
Source: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

But thus- if pow'rs divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

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