William Shakespeare Quotes
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Use almost can change the stamp of nature.
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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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Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.
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Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
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This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
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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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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
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I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
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What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
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You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
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God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.