William Shakespeare Quotes
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Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
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Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
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O, how full of briers is this working-day world!
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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
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My soul is in the sky.
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Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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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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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.
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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
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They say miracles are past.
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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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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Hear the meaning within the word.
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I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
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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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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
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The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
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Love sees with the heart and not with mind.