William Shakespeare Quotes
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
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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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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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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
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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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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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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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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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Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
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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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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.
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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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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -
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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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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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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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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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Hereditary sloth instructs me.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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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.