William Shakespeare Quotes
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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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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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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
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Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.
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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.
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Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
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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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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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Beauty lives with kindness.
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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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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Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.
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You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.
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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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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
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Light and lust are deadly enemies.
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I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
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He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.