William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
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Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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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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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
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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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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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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
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Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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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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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
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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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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
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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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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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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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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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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.