Shakespeare Quotes About Power

    19 quotes across 9 plays.

    Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'

    Antony·Antony and Cleopatra·Act 3, Scene 13

    Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard.

    Joan La Pucelle·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 1, Scene 2

    She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

    Suffolk·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 5, Scene 3

    Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.

    Joan La Pucelle·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 5, Scene 2

    Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!

    Bastard·King John·Act 2, Scene 1

    To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

    Salisbury·King John·Act 4, Scene 2

    Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.

    Bastard·King John·Act 5, Scene 7

    Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

    King Lear·King Lear·Act 1, Scene 1

    O, reason not the need: our basest beggars

    King Lear·King Lear·Act 2, Scene 4

    See better, Lear; and let me still remain

    Kent·King Lear·Act 1, Scene 1

    To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus.

    Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 3, Scene 1

    Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 1, Scene 2

    You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse.

    Caliban·The Tempest·Act 1, Scene 2

    Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top, Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft

    Aaron·Titus Andronicus·Act 2, Scene 1

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    Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

    King Henry IV·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 4, Scene 5

    Let the end try the man.

    Prince Hal·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 2, Scene 2

    Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

    Prince Hal·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 2, Scene 2

    Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,

    Caliban·The Tempest·Act 3, Scene 2

    How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!

    Miranda·The Tempest·Act 5, Scene 1
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