William Shakespeare Quotes
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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The cunning livery of hell.
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
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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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No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
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Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
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Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
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The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
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When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?
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When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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As merry as the day is long.
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The patient must minister to himself
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And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.
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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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Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.
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We will have rings and things and fine array