William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
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He that dies pays all debts.
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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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I have not slept one wink.
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All offences come from the heart.
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?
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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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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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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love