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27 Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
About Flowers
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William Shakespeare is an English writer and playwright, he is considered as the
greatest writer in Britain and the talented playwright that was ahead of his time. He is
also honored as one of the most popular poets of Britain and as “The Poet of Avon
River”. And it was him who brought the tragic and famous ending of couple Romeo and
Juliet to become such a cultural phenomenon, a well-known image of faithfulness, an
inspiration for many forms of theatre arts.
William Shakespeare’s ideas on matters such as romantic love, heroism or tragedy
have influenced the attitudes of millions of people. Rural life was also vividly included in
his literary and poetic works. Among them, the flowers under his pen left a deep
impression.
In William Shakespeare’s works, violets under his pen appear to be proliferating during
spring. William Shakespeare loved this humble little purple flower, and many of his
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works featured Violet flowers. Here are some famous William Shakespeare quotes
about flowers, and many other flowers and plants.
Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best. ― William Shakespeare
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ― William Shakespeare
2
Lay her i’ the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I
tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest
howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the
sweet: farewell! ― William Shakespeare
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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as
sweet. ― William Shakespeare
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Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March
with beauty. ― William Shakespeare
5
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet
grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses
and with eglantine. ― William Shakespeare
6
Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of
this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ― William Shakespeare
7
Out of this nettle – danger – we pluck this flower – safety. ― William
Shakespeare
8
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower
when next we meet. ― William Shakespeare
9
Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold,
that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of
middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. ― William
Shakespeare
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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ― William Shakespeare
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These flowers are like the pleasures of the world. ― William Shakespeare
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very
hour. ― William Shakespeare
13
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye. ―
William Shakespeare
14
Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-
idleness. ― William Shakespeare
15
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt:
but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the
flower, Corrupt with virtuous season. ― William Shakespeare
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There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy
stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles,
daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our
cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her
coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her
weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. ― William Shakespeare
17
Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e’er was crow; Gloves as sweet
as damask roses. ― William Shakespeare
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What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they
stop their nose That kneel’d unto the buds. ― William Shakespeare
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I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her
cheeks. ― William Shakespeare
20
He was met even now As mad as the vex’d sea; singing aloud; Crown’d with
rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-
flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. ―
William Shakespeare
21
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is
pansies. that’s for thoughts. ― William Shakespeare
22
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy
stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles,
daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our
cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her
coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her
weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. ― William Shakespeare
23
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. ― William
Shakespeare
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You’d be so lean, that blast of January Would blow you through and through.
Now, my fair’st friend, I would I had some flowers o’ the spring that might
Become your time of day. ― William Shakespeare
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a
flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a
flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. ― William Shakespeare
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Where souls do couch on flowers we’ll hand in hand. ― William Shakespeare
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