William Shakespeare Quotes
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
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To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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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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Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.
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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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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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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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If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
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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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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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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
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Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
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Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
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My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
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Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.