William Shakespeare Quotes
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No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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O, full of scorpions is my mind!
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
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I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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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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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
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To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
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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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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.