William Shakespeare Quotes
-
I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
-
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
-
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
-
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.
-
IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
-
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
-
There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
-
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
-
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
-
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
-
a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.
-
There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
-
Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
-
Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.
-
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.
-
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.
-
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
-
Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
-
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
-
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
-
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
-
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
-
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.
-
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.