William Shakespeare Quotes
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No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
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Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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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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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.
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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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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
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Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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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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The patient must minister to himself
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This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.
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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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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
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For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
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Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.