William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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An old black ram is tupping your white ewe
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Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
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Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
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Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.
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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
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Have patience, and endure
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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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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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
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I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
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O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
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We will have rings and things and fine array
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Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?
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Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
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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)