William Shakespeare Quotes
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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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Hang him, swaggering rascal!
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Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.
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How now, wit! Whither wander you?
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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For I am nothing if not critical.
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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.
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How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
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I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
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Who is it that can tell me who I am?
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If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
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My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
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My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
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Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
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Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
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Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
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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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Love sees with the heart and not with mind.