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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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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I almost die for food, and let me have it!
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
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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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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.
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Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
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Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
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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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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
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He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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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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O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.
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Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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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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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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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.