Shakespeare Plague Quotes

#1. Rouse him: - make after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy, Yet throw such changes of vexation

William Shakespeare

#2. If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare

#3. Books fall open, you fall in.

David McCord

#4. Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

William Shakespeare

#5. Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

William Shakespeare

#6. A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

William Shakespeare

#7. Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.

William Shakespeare

#8. Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

#9. I'll show thee best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
I'llift fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I'll bear him no sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.
---Caliban
(Act II, scene 2, lines 158-162)

William Shakespeare

#10. To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Anne Perry

#11. It was then I was seeing the wisdom of doing what I could to amass a girl posse who knew how to deal with "uber-alphas" because they could share their wisdom.

Kristen Ashley

#12. How now?
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?

William Shakespeare

#13. The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

David Halberstam

#14. There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Chuck Barris

#15. Lips, let sour words go by and language end:
What is amiss plague and infection mend!
Graves only be men's works and death their gain!
Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

William Shakespeare

#16. The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Richard Steele

#17. A plague on both your houses.

William Shakespeare

#18. I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

Anthony Hopkins

#19. Because around you, all I want to do is fall without thought.

Anonymous

#20. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare