The Roots of Humanity in Shakespeare (G—I)

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

Hamlet—i, 3

Give me worship and quietness;

I like it better than a dangerous honour.

3 Henry VI—iv, 3

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Hamlet—i, 3

Give thy worst of thoughts

The worst of words.

Othello—iii, 3

Glory is like a circle in the water,

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself.

1 Henry VI—i, 2

God and His angels guard your sacred throne,

And make you long become it.

Henry V—i, 2

God and our good cause fight upon our side.

Richard III—v, 3

God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast,

Love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

Richard Ill—ii, 2

God bless thee, lady. 

Twelfth Night—i, 5

God bless your Grace with health and happy days! 

Richard III—iii, 1

God defend the right! 

Richard II—i, 3; 1 2 Henry VI, ii, 3

God forgive us all! 

Macbeth—v, 1

God is our fortress. 

1 Henry VI ii, 1

God mend your voices! 

As You Like It—v, 2

God on our side, doubt not of victory.

2 Henry VI—iv, 8

God rest all Christian souls!

Romeo and Juliet—i, 3

God's benison go with you; and with those

That would make good of bad, and friends of foes! 

Macbeth—ii, 4

God's blessing on your beard!

Love's Labour's Lost—ii, 1

God shall be my hope,

My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.

2 Henry VI—ii, 3

God send every one their heart's desire!

Much Ado about Nothing—iii, 4

God, the best maker of all marriages,

Combine your hearts in one!

Henry V—v, 2

Gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Venus and Adonis

Good counsellors lack no clients.

Measure for Measure—i, 2

Good lord! what madness rules in brain-sick men.

1 Henry VI—iv, 1

Good name, in man or woman,

Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

Othello—iii, 3

Goodness and he fill up one monument.

Henry VIII—ii, 1

Good pasture makes fat sheep.

As You Like It—iii, 1

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

Julius Caesar—iv, 2

Good things should be praised.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—iii, 1

Go to your bosom;

Knock there; and ask your heart, what it doth know. 

Measure for Measure—ii, 2 

Grace and remembrance be to you!

Winter's Tale—iv, 3

Great floods have flown

From simple sources. 

All's Well That Ends Well—ii, 1

Great God, how just art Thou!

2 Henry VI—v, 1

Grief makes one hour ten.

Richard II—i, 3

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Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me

Thou would'st appear most ugly.

Antony and Cleopatra—ii, 5

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

Much Ado about Nothing—ii, 3

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings.

Cymbeline—ii, 3

Have more than thou showest;

Speak less than thou knowest;

Lend less than thou owest.

Lear—i, 4

Have patience, and endure.

Much Ado about Nothing—iv, 1

Have patience, good people.

As You Like It—iii, 2

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

That it do singe yourself. 

Henry VIII—i, 1

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do;

Not light them for themselves.

Measure for Measure—i, 1

Heaven forgive our sins! 

Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 5

Heaven give you many, many merry days!

Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 5

Heaven hath a hand in these events.

Richard II—v, 2

Heaven in thy good cause make thee prosperous!

Richard II—i, 3

Heaven is above all yet. There sits a judge

That no king can corrupt. 

Henry VIII—iii, 1

Heaven make you better than your thoughts. 

Merry Wives of Windsor—iii, 3

Heaven mend all!

Cymbeline—v, 5

Heaven prosper our sport!

Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 2

Heaven's above all; and there be souls that must be saved, and there are souls must not be saved. 

Othello—ii, 3

Heaven still guards the right.

Richard II—iii, 2

He has a sin

That often drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner. 

Timon of Athens—iii, 5

He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest man's voice. 

Coriolanus—ii, 3

He hath a daily beauty in his life.

Othello—v, 1

He hath a kind of honour sets him off

More than a mortal seeming.

Cymbeline—i, 6

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand

Open as day to melting charity.

2 Henry IV—iv, 4

He hath deserv'd worthily of his country.

Coriolanus—ii, 2

He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. 

Winter's Tale—iv, 3

He is a great observer, and he looks

Quite through the deeds of men.

Julius Caesar—i, 2

He is a happy king, since from his subjects

He gains the name of good by his government.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre—ii, 1

He is as full of valour as of kindness.

Henry V—iv, 2

He is a worthy man! 

Coriolanus—ii, 2

He is complete in feature and in mind,

With all good grace to grace a gentleman.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—ii, 4

He is the rock;—the oak, not to be wind-shaken.

Coriolanus—v, 2

He is truly valiant that can wisely suffer

The worst that man can breathe.

Timon of Athens—iii, 5

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Merchant of Venice—iv, 1

He must needs go that the devil drives.

All's Well That Ends Well—i, 3

Hence, horrible shadow!

Unreal mockery, hence! 

Macbeth—iii, 4

He's honest, on mine honour.

Henry VIII—v, 1

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

2 Henry IV—iii, 2

He that filches from me my good name,

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

But makes me poor indeed.

Othello—iii, 3

He that hath the steerage of my course,

Direct my sail! 

Romeo and Juliet—i, 4

He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a heaven to throne in.

Coriolanus—v, 4

His heart is free from fraud, as Heaven from earth. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona—ii, 7

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world, This was a man.

Julius Caesar—v, 5

His nature is too noble for the world,

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,

Or Jove for his power to thunder.

Coriolanus—iii, 1

His worst fault is that he is given to prayer.

Merry Wives of Windsor—i, 4

Holy water in a dry house is better than rainwater out o' door. 

King Lear—iii, 2

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

Love's Labour's Lost—v, 2

Honour is the subject of my story.

Julius Caesar—i, 2

Hope is a lover's staff. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona—iii, 1

How beauteous mankind is!

Tempest—V, 1

How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Merchant of Venice—v, 1

How high a pitch his resolution soars!

Richard II—i, 1

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds

Makes deeds ill done. 

John—iv, 2

How oft when men are at the point of death

Have they been merry! 

Romeo and Juliet—v, 3

How poor an instrument

May do a noble deed. 

Antony and Cleopatra—v, 2

How poor are they that have not patience.

Othello—ii, 3

How quickly nature falls into revolt,

When gold becomes her object.

2 Henry IV—iv, 4

How still the evening is,

As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony.

Much Ado about Nothing—ii, 3

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

Two Gentlemen of Verona—v, 4

How well this honest mirth becomes their labour! 

Pericles, Prince of Tyre—ii, 1

Circus, Budapest, 19 May 1920—Andre Kertesz (1894—1985)—Denver Art Museum

I am a feather for each wind that blows.

Winter's Tale—ii, 3

I am as true as truth's simplicity,

And simpler than the infancy of truth.

Troilus and Cressida—iii, 2

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

1 Henry IV—iv, 2

I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confm'd, bound in

To saucy doubts and fears.

Macbeth—iii, 4

I am constant as the northern star,

Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality

There is no fellow in the firmament.

Julius Caesar—iii, 1

I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you.

Hamlet—ii, 2

I can no other answer make, but, thanks,

And thanks.

Twelfth Night—iii, 3

I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.

Hamlet—ii, 2

I could be well content

To entertain the lag-end of my life

With quiet hours. 

Henry IV—v, 1

I do not know that Englishman alive

With whom my soul is any jot at odds.

Richard III—ii, 1

I do not love to see wretchedness o'ercharged,

And duty in his service perishing.

Midsummer Night's Dream—v, 1

I earn that I get, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness.

As You Like It—iii, 2

If God prevent it not; I purpose so.

Richard II—v, 2

If he would incline to the people, there was never a worthier man. 

Coriolanus—ii, 3

If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

1 Henry IV—v, 4

If I lose mine honour

I lose myself. 

Antony and Cleopatra—iii, 4

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

Romeo and Juliet—v, 1

If I must die,

I will encounter darkness as a bride,

And hug it in mine arms. 

Measure for Measure—iii, 1

If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,

I can again thy former light restore.

Othello—v, 2

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly. 

Macbeth—i, 7

If my suspect be false, forgive me, God;

For judgment only doth belong to thee!

2 Henry VI—iii, 2

If our virtues

Do not go forth of us, 'twere all alike

As if we had them not

Measure for Measure—i, 1

If the great gods be just, they shall assist

The deeds of justest men.

Antony and Cleopatra—ii, 1

Ignorance is the curse of God.

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

2 Henry VI—iv, 7

I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.

3 Henry IV—iv, 1

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;

A stage where every man must play a part.

Merchant of Venice—i, 1

I know you have a gentle, noble temper,

A soul as even as a calm. 

Henry VIII—iii, 1

I'll be as patient as a gentle stream.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—ii, 6

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Comedy of Errors—iii, 2

Ill will never said well. 

Henry V—iii, 7

Indeed a sheep doth very often stray,

An if the shepherd be awhile away.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—i, 1

I never did repent for doing good,

Nor shall not now. 

Merchant of Venice—iii, 4

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Merchant of Venice—iv, 1

Ingratitude is monstrous. 

Coriolanus—ii, 3

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend;

More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child,

Than the sea-monster! 

Lear—i, 4

In my sense, 'tis happiness to die!

Othello—v, 2

In nature there's no blemish but the mind;

None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.

Twelfth Night—iii, 4

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility.

Henry V—iii, 1

Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. 

1 Henry IV—ii, 4

In such a time as this, it is not meet

That every nice offence should bear his comment.

Julius Caesar—iv, 3

In the great hand of God I stand.

Macbeth—ii, 3

I pardon him, as heaven shall pardon me.

Richard II—v, 3

I tell thee, churlish priest,

A minist'ring angel shall my sister be

When thou liest howling. 

Hamlet—v, 1

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

Merchant of Venice—i, 2

It is a kind of good deed to say well;

And yet words are no deeds.

Henry VIII—iii, 2

It is great sin to swear unto a sin,

But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath.

2 Henry VI—v, 1

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

Midsummer Night's Dream—v, 1

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,

And that craves wary walking.

Julius Caesar—ii, 1

It is the mind that makes the body rich.

Taming of the Shrew—iv, 3

I will be correspondent to command,

And do my spiriting gently.

Tempest—i, 2

I will be master of what is mine own.

Taming of the Shrew—iii, 2

I will be very kind, and liberal

To mine own children in good bringing-up.

Taming of the Shrew—i, 1

I, your glass,

Will modestly discover to yourself

That of yourself which you yet know not of.

Julius Caesar—i, 2

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