William Shakespeare on Singing
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“His tongue is now a stringless instrument.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“But one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“Nay, now you are too flat And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung With feigning voice verses of feigning love.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“Every night he comes With musics of all sorts and songs compos'd To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves; for he persists As if his life lay on't.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations