William Shakespeare Quotes
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My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
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Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were.
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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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Nothing can come of nothing.
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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
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Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.
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Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
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Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
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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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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
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O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
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Let each man do his best.
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This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
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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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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
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Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
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Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.
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Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
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I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?