All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Fear”

“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”
“When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
“Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.”
“The fear's as bad as falling.”
“When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.”
“Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?”
“ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”
“To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.”
“Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.”
“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have coolâ€™d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were inâ€™t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!”
“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.”
“It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.”
“Hang those that talk of fear.”

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