William Shakespeare Quotes
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O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.
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Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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Heaven give you many, many merry days.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.
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The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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Fill all thy bones with aches.
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Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
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Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.
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He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
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He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
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For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
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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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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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Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
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God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!