William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
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Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
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Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
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That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
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Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast...
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[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.
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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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All the world's a stage.
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Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
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From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.
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Men from children nothing differ.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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so full of shapes is fancy
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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thus with a kiss I die
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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
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Blood will have blood.
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One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
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They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
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For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.