William Shakespeare Quotes
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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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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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
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The cunning livery of hell.
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I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
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When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.