William Shakespeare Quotes
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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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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
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We will have rings and things and fine array
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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
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An old black ram is tupping your white ewe
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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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Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—
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If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
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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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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.
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And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
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You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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Have patience, and endure
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
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A very honest woman but something given to lie
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.