William Shakespeare Quotes
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Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.
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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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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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Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
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I almost die for food, and let me have it!
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And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
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Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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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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Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.
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There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
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Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]