William Shakespeare Quotes
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
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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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You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.
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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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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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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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Hereditary sloth instructs me.
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
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You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.