William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
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A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
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Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.
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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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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
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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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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.
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He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning