William Shakespeare Quotes
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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What's done can't be undone.
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He was not so much brain as earwax
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
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King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
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Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
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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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Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
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The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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Thou lump of foul deformity!
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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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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.