William Shakespeare Quotes
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Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!
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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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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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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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ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
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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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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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While we lie tumbling in the hay.
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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book! William Shakespeare
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Who is it can read a woman?
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You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.
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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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Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
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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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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
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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.