William Shakespeare Quotes
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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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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Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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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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Fill all thy bones with aches.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.
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And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.
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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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I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with the other fling it at thy face.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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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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To whom God will, there be the victory.
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Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.