William Shakespeare Quotes
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
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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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Life's uncertain voyage.
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A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
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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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Is she not passing fair?
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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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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
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The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
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No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.
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What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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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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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
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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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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.