William Shakespeare Quotes
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
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And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
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Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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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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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
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Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
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Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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I have not slept one wink.
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.