Quote

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

William Shakespeare

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Great
Drinking
Urine
Things
Drink
Provokes
Painting
Provoking
Takes
Nose
Sleep
Noses
Desire
Alcohol
Away
Performance
Three
Performances
Lechery

More quotes by William Shakespeare

Image
I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
William Shakespeare
Image
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
William Shakespeare
Image
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
Image
Misery makes sport to mock itself.
William Shakespeare
Image
O the world is but a word were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!
William Shakespeare
Image
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
William Shakespeare
Image
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
Image
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
William Shakespeare
Image
Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
William Shakespeare
Image
Exit, pursued by a bear.
William Shakespeare
Image
Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.
William Shakespeare
Image
I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
William Shakespeare
Image
Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
William Shakespeare
Image
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
Image
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
William Shakespeare
Image
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
William Shakespeare
Image
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him it sets him on and it takes him off.
William Shakespeare
Image
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
William Shakespeare
Image
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
William Shakespeare
Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
William Shakespeare