William Shakespeare Quotes
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Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)
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Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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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.
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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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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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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!
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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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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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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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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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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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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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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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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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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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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.