William Shakespeare Quotes
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.
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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
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Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
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Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.
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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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Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
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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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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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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 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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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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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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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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An old black ram is tupping your white ewe
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You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.