William Shakespeare Quotes
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
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We will have rings and things and fine array
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Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
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If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.
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This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
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Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
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Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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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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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
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What is more miserable than discontent?
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It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring.
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My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
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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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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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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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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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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.