William Shakespeare Quotes
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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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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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.
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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
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What a fool honesty is.
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I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
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Hereditary sloth instructs me.
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Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
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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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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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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.