“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
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“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
Derived from a longer quote in Henry V, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Misattributed
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
Bedford, Act I, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)
Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)
Portia, Act I, scene ii.
The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)
Speed, Act II, scene i.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
King Henry, Act II, scene v.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Richard, Act V, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.”
The Rape of Lucrece (1594).
Cade, Act IV, scene vii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
Derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream on p. 269, Aphorisms from Shakespeare (1812), Capel Lofft, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, a book which rewrites in aphoristic form Shakespeare quotations, in this case the exchange between Hermia and Theseus: "I would my father look'd but with my eyes", "Rather your eyes must with his judgment look".
Misattributed
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”
Enobarbus, Act II, scene ii.
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)