All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Books”

“A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.”
“Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.”
“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
“I'll note you in my book of memory.”
“I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.”
“Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
“Within the book and volume of thy brain.”
“Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.”
“Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.”
“You kiss by th' book.”
“Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”
“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.”
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”
“A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)”
“This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.”
“I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!”
“I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.”
“I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.”
“To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.”
“Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.”
“I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.”

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