William Shakespeare Quotes
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
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To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
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I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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To saucy doubts and fears.
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The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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Greatness knows itself.
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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Justice always whirls in equal measure.