William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
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A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
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Life's uncertain voyage.
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
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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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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
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That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
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There's daggers in men's smiles.
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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
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All offences come from the heart.
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We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.
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For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.
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For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.