William Shakespeare Quotes
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Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
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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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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
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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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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
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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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Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
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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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Out of her favour, where I am in love.
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Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
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For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.
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O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!
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Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
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For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
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How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!