William Shakespeare Quotes
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Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
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Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
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For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
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He that dies pays all debts.
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
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O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.