William Shakespeare Quotes
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Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
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Hear the meaning within the word.
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He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
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Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
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Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
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What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
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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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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
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But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.
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Like madness, is the glory of this life.
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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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Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.
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By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
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Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
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I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
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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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Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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There's villainous news abroad.