William Shakespeare Quotes
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Have patience, and endure
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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
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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 our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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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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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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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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Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
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Out of her favour, where I am in love.
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
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A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.
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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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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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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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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.