Shakespeare quotes on book

77 Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste, These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste
Source: THE SONNETS

82 I grant thou

Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly? Coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar, telling us she had a good dish of prawns, whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for green wound? And didst thou not, when she was gone down stairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people, saying that ere long they should call me madam? And didst thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch the thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

And look whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book, his counsel-keeper
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve; Watch thou and wake, when others be asleep, To pry into the secrets of the state; Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen, And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars; Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfum'd, And in my standard bear the arms of York, To grapple with the house

In sight of God and us, your guilt is great; Receive the sentence of the law for sins Such as by God's book are adjudg'd to death
Source: THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

'My dear sir,' Thus leaning on mine elbow I begin 'I shall beseech you'-That is question now; And then comes answer like an Absey book
Source: KING JOHN

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree; This civil war of wits were much better used On Navarre and his book-men, for here 'tis abused
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court; A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport To the Prince and his book-mates
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Do we not likewise see our learning there? O, we have made a vow to study, lords, And in that vow we have forsworn our books
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Things growing are not ripe until their season; So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason; And touching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will, And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook Love's stories, written in Love's richest book
Source: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Must I do so? And must I ravel out My weav'd-up follies? Gentle Northumberland, If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst, There shouldst thou find one heinous article, Containing the deposing of a king And cracking the strong warrant of an oath, Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven
Source: KING RICHARD THE SECOND

I promis'd to enquire carefully About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca; And by good fortune I have lighted well On this young man; for learning and behaviour Fit for her turn, well read in poetry And other books- good ones, I warrant ye
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

And toward the education of your daughters I here bestow a simple instrument, And this small packet of Greek and Latin books
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

when the priest Should ask if Katherine should be his wife, 'Ay, by gogs-wouns' quoth he, and swore so loud That, all amaz'd, the priest let fall the book; And as he stoop'd again to take it up, This mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff That down fell priest and book, and book and priest
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music-which even now I do- To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book
Source: THE TEMPEST

TITUS' garden Enter YOUNG LUCIUS and LAVINIA running after him, and the boy flies from her with his books under his arm
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS

I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book
Source: THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Cesario, Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd To thee the book even of my secret soul
Source: TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL

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