William Shakespeare Quotes
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This is the short and the long of it.
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wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
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Have patience, and endure
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.
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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
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Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!
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And she's fair I love.
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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
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Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
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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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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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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
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I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently