William Shakespeare Quotes
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
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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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Who is it that can tell me who I am?
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Let each man do his best.
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When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.
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For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.
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I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
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In right and service to their noble country.
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Nothing can come of nothing.
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
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Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
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This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
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Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth
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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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There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
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'Tis pride that pulls the country down.
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
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Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.
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A harmless necessary cat.