William Shakespeare Quotes
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In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.
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Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
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You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
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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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The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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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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The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.
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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.
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God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
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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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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
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I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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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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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.