William Shakespeare Quotes
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
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Justice always whirls in equal measure.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.
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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
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A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.
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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
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Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
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Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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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 have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
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Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.
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The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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There's daggers in men's smiles.
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Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.