William Shakespeare Quotes
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Barnes are blessings.
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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
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If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
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it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee
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All dark and comfortless.
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
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I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.
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If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.
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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
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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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Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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Time is the king of men.
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I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.
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I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
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She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.