William Shakespeare Quotes
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.
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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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On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
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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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Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
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Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
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Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
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Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.
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Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
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Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
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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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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
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Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.