William Shakespeare Quotes
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But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.
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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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so full of shapes is fancy
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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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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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If there is a good will, there is great way.
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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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...an old man is twice a child.
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Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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Light and lust are deadly enemies.
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And makes me poor indeed.
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Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
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Beauty lives with kindness.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
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Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.