William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
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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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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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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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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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One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
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I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
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The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.
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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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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
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O, full of scorpions is my mind!
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This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.
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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
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But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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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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I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.