William Shakespeare Quotes
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To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
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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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Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
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Love sees with the heart and not with mind.
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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Every why has a wherefore.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
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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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You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.
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I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
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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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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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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
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it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee
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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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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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Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.
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A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
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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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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.