William Shakespeare Quotes
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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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I am a feather for each wind that blows
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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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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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
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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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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
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She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.
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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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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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Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.