William Shakespeare: Making

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

William Shakespeare

Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night…”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V, No Fear, Act 4 Scene 4

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II

“Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello