William Shakespeare Quotes
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What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?
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Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
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Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
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Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.
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I am sure care's an enemy to life.
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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
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For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.
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for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)
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He was not so much brain as earwax
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The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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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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Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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With love's light wings did I o'er–perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.
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My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.