Which some call nature’s bastards: of that kind
Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birthĪre our carnations and streak’d gillyvors, Of middle summer, and I think they are given The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sunĪnd with him rises weeping: these are flowers To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack, The winds of March with beauty violets dim, That come before the swallow dares, and take I would I had some flowers o’ the spring that mightīecome your time of day and yours, and yours,įor the flowers now, that frighted thou let’st fall Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year įor the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale.’ Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight.Ī Midsummer Night’s Dream 15. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: ‘Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell:īefore milk-white, now purple with love’s wound,Ī Midsummer Night’s Dream 14. ‘Flower of this purple dye,Ī Midsummer Night’s Dream 13. ‘The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?ĭo as the carrion does, not as the flower, That strew the green lap of the new come spring?’ ‘To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, ‘I think the king is but a man, as IĪm: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.’Ī Midsummer Night’s Dream 4. ‘I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells The first 11 quotes are specific to violets, with the remaining quotes covering all types of plants. Shakespeare loved this humble little flower and his texts are strewn with violets. Warwickshire is well-known for the proliferation of violets in the Spring. Moreover, the author had a particularly detailed, closely observed, knowledge of the flower, flora and fauna of Warwickshire, the rural area where Shakespeare grew up. One of the many arguments against the Shakespeare conspiracy theory is the knowledge of rural life displayed by the author in his plays and poems. This page details 40 Shakespeare Quotes about flowers.
Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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