William Shakespeare Quotes
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Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
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Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.
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Like madness, is the glory of this life.
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You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
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I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.
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Hear the meaning within the word.
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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
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...an old man is twice a child.
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
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Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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Death rock me asleep.
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For I am nothing if not critical.
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Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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Conscience is a thousand swords.
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She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
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Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.