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William Shakespeare on Books

1564–1616 England

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That roars so loud and thunders in the index.

Your face, my thane, is a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time.

Macbeth (1605)

Keep * * * thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.

King Lear (1608)

Speaks three or four languages word for word without a book.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on.

King John (1598)

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.

And in such indexes (although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes) there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.

O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

We turn'd o'er many books together.

My library was dukedom large enough.

The Tempest (1611)

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.

I had rather than forty shillings, I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.

O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.