William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Who is it that can tell me who I am?
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
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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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Light and lust are deadly enemies.
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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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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
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O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.
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Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
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I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.
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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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Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
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Hold, or cut bowstrings.
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Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
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Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
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Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.
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Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?