William Shakespeare Quotes
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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I am wealthy in my friends.
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The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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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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O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.
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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
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Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
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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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Is she not passing fair?
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O, full of scorpions is my mind!
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Now I will believe that there are unicorns.
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Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
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Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
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An old black ram is tupping your white ewe
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Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.