William Shakespeare Quotes
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Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
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Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
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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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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
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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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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
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Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.
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Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
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To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.
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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.