William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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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.
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And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
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Life's uncertain voyage.
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.
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I have not slept one wink.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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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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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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Who is it can read a woman?
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
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This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
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Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
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If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.