William Shakespeare Quotes
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
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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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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
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An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
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Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.
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Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.
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Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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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 had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.
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O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
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Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
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If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
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The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.
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Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.