William Shakespeare Quotes
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.
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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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Ready to go but never to return.
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But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
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Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
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You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
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...an old man is twice a child.
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I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
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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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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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For I am nothing if not critical.
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Beauty lives with kindness.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.