William Shakespeare Quotes
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Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
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The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
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Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
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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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O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
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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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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
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O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
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The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
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Good reasons must of force give place to better.
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Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)
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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.