William Shakespeare Quotes
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A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.
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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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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
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Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
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They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
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This is the short and the long of it.
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
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Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
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Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
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What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!