William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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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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You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
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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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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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You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.
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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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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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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
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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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I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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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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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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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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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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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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thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.