William Shakespeare Quotes
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My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
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A good heart 'is worth gold.
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
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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
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He was not so much brain as earwax
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Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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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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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
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Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.
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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
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Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
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It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
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Making night hideous.
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.