William Shakespeare Quotes
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
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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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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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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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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
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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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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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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'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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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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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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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
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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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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
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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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What a fool honesty is.
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The icy precepts of respect.