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Hope: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions, highest rear'd; As knots by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain, Tortive and errant from his course of growth.— T.C. i. 3.

A cause on foot Lives so in hope, as in an early spring We see the appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair, That frosts will bite them.— H. IV. PT. II. i. 3

Like one that stands upon a promontory, And spies a far-off shore where he would tread, Wishing his foot were equal with his eye; And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.— H. VI. PT. III. iii. 2

True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings, Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.— R. III. v. 2.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.— M. M. iii. 1

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts.— T. G. iii. 1

There is a credence in thy heart, An esperance so obstinately strong, That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears; As if those organs had deceptious functions,— T.C. v. 2.

Created only to calumniate. It never yet did hurt, To lay down likelihoods, and forms of hope.— H. IV. PT. II. i. 3.

In that hope, I throw mine eyes to heaven, Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. H.VI. III. i.4 I spy life peering; but I dare not say How near the tidings of our comfort is.— R. II. ii. L

O, out of that no hope, What great hope have you! no hope, that way, is Another way so high an hope, that even— T. ii. 1

Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond. Do not satisfy your resolution with hopes that are fallible— M. M. iii. 1

I have lost my hopes, Perhaps even there, where I did find my doubts. M. iv. 3. And he that will not fight for such a hope, Go home to bed, and, like the owl by day, If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at. H. VI. PT. III. v. 4 What! we have many goodly days to see; The liquid drops of tears that you have shed, Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl; Advantaging their loan, with interest— R. III. iv. 4.

Of ten-times-double gain of happiness. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.— M. W. ii. 1

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope; he is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper-back of death, Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,— R. II. ii. 2.

Which false hope lingers in extremity.

Hopelessness

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown, and grace, are dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees— M. ii. 3.

Is left this vault to brag of.