William Shakespeare Quotes
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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
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He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
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O war! thou son of Hell!
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Hold, or cut bowstrings.
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Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
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The nature of bad news affects the teller.
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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
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But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
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My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.
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If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.
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Barnes are blessings.
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Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
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Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.