| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.96 | A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, | A Heart vnfortified, a Minde impatient, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.233 | Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool | Why what a Waspe-tongu'd & impatient foole |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.142 | Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire | Impatient of his Fit, breakes like a fire |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.228 | are too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend | are too impatient to beare crosses. Fare you well. Commend |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.50 | Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. | Flye o're them all, impatient for their howre. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.54 | Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend? | Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.150.2 | Impatient of my absence, | Impatient of my absence, |
| King John | KJ II.i.56 | England, impatient of your just demands, | England impatient of your iust demands, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.224 | His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see, | His tongue all impatient to speake and not see, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.69 | Nay, Master Page, be not impatient. | Nay Mr Page, be not impatient. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.287 | Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? | Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.240 | To put my father in impatient thoughts | To put my Father in impatient thoughts |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.30 | To an impatient child that hath new robes | To an impatient child that hath new robes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.97 | If you should smile, he grows impatient. | If you should smile, he growes impatient. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.151 | When, with a most impatient devilish spirit, | When (with a most impatient diuellish spirit) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.29 | Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. | Much more a shrew of impatient humour. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.76 | How furious and impatient they be, | How furious and impatient they be, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.6 | Imperious, and impatient of your wrongs, | Imperious and impatient of your wrongs, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.90 | I am impatient of my tarriance. | I am impatient of my tarriance. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.195 | Rude and impatient, then, like chastity, | Rude and impatient, then, like Chastity |